!!!Ebbs

Ebbs, Tirol, municipality in the district of Kufstein, alt. 
475 m, pop. 4,457 (1981: pop. 3,750), area 
40.05 km%%sup 2/%, summer resort (186,735 overnight stays) in Inn 
Valley, north of Kufstein, at the foot of Zahmer Kaiser mountain. - 
Wood processing (building industry, sawmills, furniture 
manufacturing), shoe manufacture and trade, clothes factory, printing 
works, hotel and restaurant trade; Oberaudorf-Ebbs run-of-river power 
station run by the Austro-Bavarian Power Station AG (founded in 1992, 
134,000 MWh); "Fohlenhof" (largest Haflinger stud-farm in Europe). - 
Baroque church (1748-1756) with ceiling frescoes by J. A. Moelk 
(1750) and altars, pulpit and sculptures by J. M. Lengauer; late 
Gothic pilgrimage church of St. Nikolausberg (first documented mention 
1361) with late Gothic murals; small zoo with exotic animals, nature 
reserve, Kaiser mountain range, Wagrain castle (originally Gothic 
residence, rebuilt in 1862).

!Literature
G. Anker, Ebbs - Tirol, 1988; R. Stadler, 700 Jahre 
Schloss Wagrain, 1993.


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