!!!Hall, Stadt

Hall in Tirol, Tirol, town in the district of Innsbruck-Land, alt. 
574 m, pop. 12,368, area 5.54 km%%sup 2/%, former salt-mining 
town on the River Inn, 10 km east of Innsbruck; 1938-1974 known 
under the name of Solbad Hall, since 1975 Hall in Tirol. 
District court, rural police provincial headquarters, centre of 
industrial medicine, hospital, rehabilitation centre for autistic 
children; local health and social insurance office, Lebenshilfe 
welfare organisation, Speckbacher-Kaserne and Straub-Kaserne barracks, 
district forest inspectorate, mining museum (presentation of salt 
mining, mineralogical collection), art hall (in the former saltern 
building), centre of the Kolpingwerk apprentice relief organisation, 
sports grounds, youth centre, Kleinvolderberg provincial home for 
young people; schools: Gymnasium der Franziskaner (denominational 
secondary school), 2 vocational schools, commercial college, private 
vocational school (Meisterschule) for opticians, Haushaltungsschule 
der Kreuzschwestern (denominational school for home economics), 
Krankenpflegeschule der Kreuzschwestern (denominational nursing 
college), Leopoldinum-Colleg der Franziskaner (denominational 
college), adult education centre, Maedcheninternat der Schulschwestern 
(denominational boarding school for girls); run-of-river power station 
Voldertal of the Hall in Tirol Gas and Electricity Board 
(built 1966, 31,000 MWh, municipality of Volders). - 7,656 
employed persons in 1991, about 59 % work in the service sector 
(particularly personal, social and public services, commerce); 
manufacturing sector: metal-working industry (pipes, fittings, 
construction of turbines and machines), textile industry, plastics 
industry (plastic parts, sports goods), foods and luxury foods (tea, 
pasta, cheese and dairy products), wood-working industry (e.g. 
windows), natural and artificial stone manufacture, production of 
sun-blinds, wax products, large-scale building business, large-scale 
garage and car sales; tourism (56,885 overnight stays); "Tyrolean 
duty-free zone" (operating company with depot for goods not cleared 
through customs, in particular new cars). - Salt mining documented 
since the 13%%sup th/%  century, 1303 first documented mention as 
town, commercial centre in the Middle Ages due to salt mining and 
navigation on the River Inn, 1477-1809 mint, 1967 salt mining 
discontinued. Completely preserved old part of town surrounded by 
former town moat; medieval upper town square with town hall 
(15%%sup th/%  - 16%%sup th/%  centuries), parish church and 
late-Gothic houses (15%%sup th/%  - 16%%sup th/%  centuries) with 
oriels and round-arched portals; late-Gothic parish church, nave 
(until 1352) with choir (1312-1318), tower (1345), 1420-1437 
extension, chapel of the Fieger family (1490), 1751/52 adapted in 
Baroque style (paintings by J. A. Moelk), Baroque high altar 
(mid-17%%sup th/%  century) with altarpiece by J. E. 
Quellinus (1657), marble figures (1751 and 1754) by C. Woerndle, 
Waldauf chapel (consecrated 1505) with wrought-iron grille; St. 
Magdalen chapel (14%%sup th/%  century) in the cemetery with 
late-Gothic carved altar (around 1490), now war memorial chapel; 
early-Baroque All Saints church (1608); former Damenstift collegiate 
church (built 1567-1570), Renaissance building adapted in Baroque 
style, with Baroque finial on the tower (1681); monastery with 
Renaissance cloister and "Sommerhaus" chalet (1715/16); Franciscan 
monastery and church (built 1644, later alterations); convent of the 
Kreuzschwestern nuns (1910/11); convent and church of Salesian nuns 
with former manor house of Thurnfeld (1582); saltern chapel with 
ceiling frescoes by Moelk (1756); Hasegg Fortress (1482-1489, 
1974-1977 renovated and converted into a cultural centre, town museum) 
with Muenzerturm tower (1489), the landmark of Hall in Tirol, and 
chapel (1515-1519); Thoeml castle; Scheidenstein, Breitenau and 
Reinegg manor houses, former manor house of Scheibenegg (1534-1630 
centre of the glass industry).

!Literature
H. Hochenegg, Kulturbilder aus Solbad Hall und Umgebung, 
1979; Oesterr. Staedtebuch, vol. V, part 1, Die Staedte Tirols, 
1980; F.-H. Hye, Hall in Tirol. Geschichte, Kunst, Stadtbild, 1983.


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