!!!Großgmain

Grossgmain, Salzburg, municipality in the district of Salzburg-Land, 
alt. 540 m, pop. 2,100, area 22.82 km%%sup 2/%, summer 
holiday resort (126,151 overnight stays) at the western foot of the 
Untersberg mountain, near the city of Salzburg, on the border to 
Germany. - Customs office, training department of the Salzburg rural 
police headquarters, convalescent home for heart-disease patients (of 
the salaried employees´ pension insurance agency), sanatorium, 
young people´s home. Service sector predominant (particularly 
social services), also sawmill and carpentry.- Originally Late Gothic 
parish church, Baroque alterations in 1731, with imitation-stone 
Madonna (14%%sup th/% century) and Gothic panel paintings (1499) by 
the "Master of Grossgmain"; Plainburg Castle ruin (first documented in 
1140, called "Salzbuechsl", "little salt box"); typical old Salzburg 
farmhouses (Einhof, 17%%sup th/%  -19%%sup th/%  centuries). Salzburg 
open-air museum (typical farmhouses, flour mills, etc., more than 50 
houses and annexed buildings from 16%%sup th/%  -19%%sup th/%  with 
household equipment); Untersberg nature preserve, Wolfschwang game 
preserve.


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