!!!Haus, Markt

Haus, Styria, market town in the district of Liezen, alt. 772 m, 
pop. 2,244, area 81.76 km%%sup 2/%, 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 (16%%sup th/%  century core); deaconal museum 
in the former tithe barn (since 1964); former offices of the Salzburg 
stadtholder (16%%sup th/%  century core, extensive alterations).


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