Röthis is a municipality in the district of Feldkirch in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg.
Name The name of Röthis was first recorded as Roetis around 1380 in a bailiff's register in Chur. Other spellings included Rötis, Roetys, Reottis, and Röttis. The spelling Röthis became common in the late 18th and 19th centuries.Georg Keckeis: Topographical and Historical Description of the Localities of Röthis and Viktorsberg, newly published by the Municipality of Röthis, 1991, p. 38.
Geography Röthis is located in Vorarlberg, western Austria, at an elevation of 508 metres. The Frutz forms the municipality's western boundary at about 440 metres above sea level, while the land rises to about 700 metres along the Frödisch in the southeast. The municipality covers just under 3 km², of which about 20% is used for agriculture and one-third is forested.An overview of the municipality of Röthis, area and land use. (PDF) Statistics Austria, accessed 22 June 2021.
Röthis has no other cadastral communities.
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Transport Sulz-Röthis railway station is an intermediate station on the Vorarlberg railway line () traversing Vorarlberg in a north-south direction. The railway station is called at by the S1 regional train service of Vorarlberg S-Bahn, operated by Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB).
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