Haus, Markt#

Haus, Styria, market town in the district of Liezen, alt. 772 m, pop. 2,244, area 81.76 km2, winter tourism (238,249 overnight stays), situated in the upper Ennstal valley, south-east of the Dachstein massif. - Golf course, sports grounds; rural home economics school; Schladminger Tauern cable car to the Krummholz mountain refuge (1,840 m) on the Hauser Kaibling mountain (2,015 m, site of a transmitter of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation), Kaiblingbahn mountain railway leading up to the Stuebelboden mountain; venue of World Cup skiing races; wood-working industry (sawmills, joiner's workshops), button factory. - First documented mention 928, centre of the Salzburg part of the Ennstal valley until 1803; in1750 fire destroyed a large part of the town; parish church (first documented mention 1074, oldest parish in the upper Ennstal valley), rebuilt 1750-53; parsonage (16th  century core); deaconal museum in the former tithe barn (since 1964); former offices of the Salzburg stadtholder (16th  century core, extensive alterations).