!!!Elsbethen

Elsbethen, Salzburg, municipality in the district of Salzburg - 
Umgebung, alt. 439 m, pop. 4,744 (1981: pop. 4,005), area 
23.94 km%%sup 2/%, linear village on the right bank of the river 
Salzach, south-east of the city of Salzburg. - Military headquarters 
of Salzburg (Archduke Rainer Barracks); mission of the Montfort 
Fathers; main economic sector: trade (computer hardware and software, 
dairy products, diving equipment, light engineering precision tools, 
electrical engineering etc.), various crafts and trades. - Settlement 
dating from prehistoric to Roman times on Grillberg and "Zigeunerloch" 
mountains, first documented mention in 930; 15%%sup th/%  century 
parish church, (Baroque alterations in 1699), stucco-decorated pulpit 
(around 1700), ceiling paintings by J. Rattersperger (2%%sup nd/% 
 half of the 19%%sup th/%  century); Goldenstein castle 
(probably 15%%sup th/%  century, from 1878 convent of Augustinian 
canonesses, today houses a Hauptschule school and boarding school for 
girls); convent of St. Ursula at Glasenbach (built 1956-1959); 
Roman villa north-east of Goldenstein castle; Tennengauer Einhof 
(special type of farmhouse - 18%%sup th/% /19%%sup th/% 
 centuries). Local history museum at Glasenbach, geological trail 
in Glasenbach gorge.


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