!!!Abtenau

Abtenau, province of Salzburg, market town in the district of Hallein, 
alt. 714 m, pop. 5,324, area 186.96 km%%sup 2/%; summer holiday 
and winter sports town, (367,567 overnight stays) in the Lammertal 
valley, at the northern foot of the Tennen Mountains. District court, 
hospital, health resort (magnesium sulphate springs); forestry 
enterprise run by the Oesterreichische Bundesforste AG (Austrian 
Federal Forests); timber processing; first documented 977, late Gothic 
church with Baroque altar (around 1675). The Aubach, Trickl and Taxach 
falls are in the vicinity.

!Further reading
H. Gfrerer, Abtenau, 2 vols., 1982.


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