!!!Hallein

Hallein, province of Salzburg, town in the district of Hallein, alt. 
447 m, pop. 17,271 (1981: pop. 15,377), area 
26.96 km%%sup 2/%, old salt-mining town, health resort, summer 
tourism (109,483 overnight stays), situated at the confluence of the 
Almbach stream and the River Salzach, on the border to Bavaria, main 
town of the Tennengau region. - District Commission, district court, 
Employment Services, Chamber of Labour, Economic Chamber, district 
Chamber of Farmers, local health and social insurance office, 
consulates, hospital, Lebenshilfe welfare organisation, training 
centre of the Austrian Armed Forces, Rif provincial sports centre; 
Pro-Juventute-Kinderdorf children´s village; schools: 
Bundesgymnasium (secondary school), Bundesrealgymnasium 
(mathematics-oriented secondary school), Berufsschule des 
metallbearbeitenden Gewerbes (vocational school for the 
metal-processing trade), Hoehere Technische Lehranstalt 
(technical/engineering school), Fachschule fuer wirtschaftliche Berufe 
(commercial college), Hoehere Lehranstalt fuer Mode und 
Bekleidungstechnik der Schulschwestern (denominational college for 
fashion and dressmaking), adult education centre; run-of-river power 
station Hallein Sohlstufe (built 1987, 11.7 MW); in  Bad 
Duerrnberg Adventure Mine Hallein (salt mine and saltern closed down 
1989), Duerrnberg Austrian Research Centre, Celtic culture trail, 
Celtic village and top station of the Hallein mountain railway, 
sanatorium (salt-water baths, mineral water). Dynamic economic 
activity with 9,054 employed persons (1991), 53 % in the 
manufacturing sector: paper industry ( Modo Papier Hallein GmbH), 
metal-working industry, manufacture of machine tools, testing 
equipment, automatic machines for the metal industry, Diesel injection 
pumps etc.; production of shoe polish, cosmetic products, floor and 
car polish, bath salts and salt for the preservation of foods; 2 
sausage and meat products factories, beverage industry, shoe factory, 
wood-working industry, marble works (municipality of Oberalm); service 
sector dominated by wholesale and retail trade (textiles), large-scale 
forwarding business; Innovations Center Taxach (computer and high-tech 
companies). - First documented mention 1198, first mention of salt 
mining 1191, town status between 1218 and 1232, called Hallein since 
the 1%%sup st/%  half of the 13%%sup th/%  century, 1218 9 salt pans, 
in the 19%%sup th/%  century demolition of the boiling houses (only 
the Colloredo boiling house from 1798 has been preserved), 1854-1862 
saltern was transferred to the Pernerinsel island in the River 
Salzach; former saltern offices (1654) are now Celtic museum (since 
1970, finds from the cemeteries of the Hallstatt and La Tène 
periods on the Duerrnberg); reconstruction of a chieftain´s 
burial mound, bookbinding museum, Hofbraeu Kaltenhausen brewery ( Brau 
Union Oesterreich AG); medieval-Baroque townscape with remains of city 
wall (before 1300), Griestor portal (14%%sup th/%  century) and 
Thuerndl ruins (14%%sup th/%  century), deaconal church (first 
documented mention 1347), nave (1769-1775) with late-Gothic choir, 
tower (1965); next to church, grave of F. X.  Gruber (composer of 
"Silent Night"), Gothic St. Peter chapel (first documented 
mention 1384), citizens´ hospital chapel (first documented 
mention 1386), town hall (16%%sup th/%  century core, tower 
1836), industrial estate and manorial buildings from the 17%%sup th/% 
 century in the district of Burgfried, Wiespach Castle in Neualm 
(first documented mention 1434), on the left bank of the River 
Salzach, Gutrat ruins (13%%sup th/%  century), Gartenau Castle (end of 
14%%sup th/%  century), Rif Castle (first documented mention 1250).

!Literature
E. Penninger and G. Stadler, Hallein, Ursprung und 
Geschichte der Salinenstadt, 1970; Salz, exhibition catalogue, Hallein 
1994; U. Kammerhofer-Aggermann, Bergbau. Alltag und Identitaet der 
Duerrnberger Bergleute und Halleiner Salinenarbeiter in Geschichte und 
Gegenwart, 1998.


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