!!!Bruck an der Großglocknerstraße

Bruck an der Grossglocknerstrasse, province of Salzburg, municipality 
in the district of Zell am See, alt. 755 m, pop. 3,926, area 
45.75 km%%sup 2/%, bi-seasonal tourism (331,278 overnight stays, 
particularly during the summer months); situated at the point where 
the Fuscher Valley joins the Salzach Valley in the Pinzgau region. - 
Sheltered workshop, agricultural school, hydraulic engineering agency; 
wood-processing (sawmill and planing works), district heating plant 
(burning wood chips), production of ventilation systems, Salzburg AG 
fuer Energiewirtschaft (maintenance and repair of electricity 
transmission lines), trading firms. Parish church (rebuilt in 1868/69 
by F. Schmidt); late Gothic altarpiece. Church at St. Georgen 
with frescoes and a Gothic Lady-altar (around 1520, re-gothicised in 
1885, mural from 1518, altar from 1518); church at Hundsdorf 
(1736-1741). Fischhorn castle (13%%sup th/%  century, remodelled in 
neo-Gothic style from 1863 to 1867, partly reconstructed after a fire 
in 1921).


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