!!!Grödig

Groedig, Salzburg, market town in the district of Salzburg-Land, alt. 
446 m, pop. 6,071 (1981: pop. 5,426), area 
23.07 km%%sup 2/%, summer holiday resort (67,113 overnight stays) 
at the foot of the Untersberg mountain, south of the city of Salzburg. 
- Untersbergbahn cableway (1961, cablecar to Geiereck mountain, 
1805 m), Untersberg nature reserve, youth centre, museum, Glanegg 
military rifle training ground, sports facilities; mainly processing 
and manufacturing industries: metal working (production of moulds, 
fences, vehicles, control clocks; metal construction), digital 
cancelling machines for skilift and gate tickets, food and luxury food 
industries (pasta and confectionery); numerous trading companies 
(structural ceramics, pumps, hardware and software, shoes, etc.); 
marble quarries near Fuerstenbrunn since Celtic-Roman times 
("Untersberg Marble"), shaping and processing of marble in Oberalm. - 
First documented in 790; parish church with Romanesque core and Gothic 
choir (1513, altered in the 19%%sup th/%  century), high altar (1809), 
damaged during the air raids of 1944; Roman votive altar in the 
cemetery wall; Late Gothic St. Leonhard pilgrimage church with 
Baroque tower (1643/1644); Glanegg Castle (first mentioned in 1350); 
connected to the "Pass" dam in 1620; several traditional farmhouses 
(Einhof); Fuerstenbrunn reservoir (built over a drinking water source 
of the city of Salzburg).

!Literature
Marktgemeinde Groedig (ed.), Festschrift zur Markterhebung 
von Groedig, 1968.


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