Gries am Brenner#

Gries am Brenner, Tirol, municipality in the district of Innsbruck-Land, alt. 1,165 m, pop. 1,330, area 55.82 km2, holiday resort (49,680 over night stays) in the Wipptal valley, at the opening of the Obernbergtal valley, on the Brennerstrasse road and motorway. - Customs office and customs police; production of machinery and industrial equipment, wood-processing industry (4 sawmills). - Late Classicist parish church (1823-1826); Late Gothic-Baroque parish church in Vinaders; St Jakob Chapel (endowed in 1305) in Noesslach with Late Gothic winged altar (around 1490, altered in 1690); Gothic chapel Am Lueg; 1287-1809 fortified customs post. Lake Brenner and St. Antonius springs near Gries am Brenner.