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Pludenz (old designated Name) - Bludenz is the capital of the district of the same name and is situated on 570 meters altitude, terraced above the valley of the Ill and the alluvial fan of the gallows creek ravine. The city lies at the junction of the valleys Walgau, Brandner Tal (Rätikon), Montafon (Silvretta), Kloster Tal (Arlberg) and (Ill-a little further down) Walsertal. 48.5 percent of the municipal area is wooded. Neighboring communities of Bludenz Nüziders, Raggal, Innerbraz, Bartholomäberg, St Anton in Montafon are, Lorüns, Stallehr and Bürs. Parts of the city of Bludenz are: Old Town, Ausserbraz, Bing's Cross, well field (with the Monastery of St. Peter), Gasünd, Mokry, Obdorf, Rungelin, Radin (Runggelin) subfield Sankt Leonhard, south Tyrolean town of Bludenz "mountain" is the Muttersberg - mother's mountain with 1402 meters height. The walk from Bludenz Laz on the mother mountain is about 1 ½ to 2 hours. The mountain can also be reached by the mother's mountain cable car and offers a panoramic view over the valley town of Bludenz, in the Rätikon and in the Silvretta. Finds from the Bronze Age suggest the earliest settlement at the foot of the Montikels. The village was the first time in 830 Bludenz Chur in Urbar kingdom called documentary and appeared in the Carolingian estates directory 842 named "Pludeno", hence the name "Pludenz".