!!!St. Gilgen

St. Gilgen, province of Salzburg, municipality in the district of 
Salzburg-Umgebung, alt. 545 m, pop. 3,382, area 
98.67 km%%sup 2/%, summer tourist and bathing resort (487,393 
overnight stays in 1992) situated on the north-west shore of Lake 
Wolfgangsee, most important municipality in the Salzburg part of the 
Salzkammergut lake district; ship landing stage. - District 
gendarmerie, educational centre and youth hostel of the Chamber of 
Labour, commercial school, federal advanced-level school, children's 
home, centre of pre-vocational training, cableway up to the 
Zwoelferhorn Peak (alt. 1,521 m). - Parish church (first 
documented mention in 1376, re-constructed between 1767 and1769) with 
late Baroque interior, burial vault of the Wrede princes (1879); 
pilgrimage church (1626, reconstructed in 1692) and Baroque wayside 
chapel on Falkenstein hill; Huettenstein Palace (1843) was built on 
the site of a castle ruin in romantic historicist style; house where 
Mozart's mother was born; Mozart memorial; Mozart well (1926); local 
heritage museum in the "Wetzlhaeusl" estate, which was built in 1655; 
museum of international music instruments; Burggrabenklamm gorge (at 
Lake Attersee).

!Literature
L. Ziller, Vom Fischerdorf zum Fremdenverkehrsort. 
Geschichte St. Gilgens und des Aberseelands, 2 vols., 
1973-1975; idem, Haeuserchronik der Gemeinden St. Gilgen und 
Strobl am Aber- (Wolfgang-)See, 1990.


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