Discover Dafins: Mountain Church, Chapels and Alpine Trails

Dafins is ideal for planning a trip in which you consciously choose individual discoveries and combine them into your personal stay. This allows you to explore the following destinations according to your own interests and structure your daily itinerary accordingly.

Churches and chapels as cultural discoveries

The parish church of St. Joseph is a notable cultural stop. Following several restorations and alterations, it is a remarkable mountain church in a Neo-Baroque design. Its history and present-day appearance make it a destination for anyone who also wants to experience regional ecclesiastical architecture while travelling.

The Ambrosius Chapel in Dafins/Hafeneck has a honeycomb-shaped floor plan and is oriented towards the basilica in Rankweil. This unusual floor plan in particular gives the chapel a distinctive architectural character. The Ambrosius Chapel is also appreciated by many visitors as a place of peace, quiet and prayer in a unique natural setting. This gives you two different cultural perspectives in Dafins: the Neo-Baroque mountain church and the chapel’s distinctive architectural language.

Landscape with a clear connection to nature

Anyone wishing to include natural areas in their travel plans alongside churches and architectural forms can consider the Mühltobel biotope. The Mühltobel biotope (biotope 42414) covers 30.98 hectares and is located south of the road to Dafins. The precise location is helpful for orientation if you want to distinguish between nature observations and cultural destinations in your mind and plan your daily itinerary accordingly.

Routes with different characters

For a hiking plan with a clearly described starting point, the route “From Dafins to Alpwegkopf” is a useful reference point in its own right. It begins above Dafins and can be reached via Sulz or Röthis. Access is from the last Morsch bus stop or from the parking options there. If you include this route in your plans, you should already take the preferred access point into account when preparing for the day.

Another walking idea is the Masellaweg. It is an alpine trail cut into the steep, crumbling rock below Dafins. Between the trees, the Masellaweg offers views down into the Frödisch valley. It therefore creates a distinctly different experience: while the named starting point and access options are the focus on the route to Alpwegkopf, the Masellaweg is defined by the alpine trail, the rock and the view of the Frödisch.

Which accommodation suits your travel plans

When looking for a holiday apartment in Dafins, you can therefore consider which information is particularly important for planning your days. If a fixed starting point and clear access are important to you, include these details when selecting your accommodation. If culture is your main focus, the churches and chapels may instead be the deciding factors in your plans.

For further comparison of travel destinations, you can also visit the pages for Götzis, Batschuns, Altach, Röns, Viktorsberg, Meiningen, Fraxern and Rankweil.

For the higher-level travel overview: Feldkirch.