Heinfels#
Heinfels, Tirol, municipality in the district of Lienz, alt. 1079 m, pop. 905, area 14.56 km2, at the entry of the Villgratental valley into the Pustertal valley, east of Sillian. - Holiday resort, run-of-river power station Heinfels (built 1990, 8.1 MW); bi-seasonal tourism (40,888 overnight stays), manufacture of electric appliances (hotplates, aggregates, control units), wood-working industry, artistic locksmith industry. - Late-Gothic Tessenberg parish church (1465-1470) with murals and fresco as altarpiece; Panzendorf subsidiary church, Gothic structure (15th century) with late-Gothic winged altarpiece (1520-25); St. Anthony chapel (1694) in Panzendorf; Heinfels Fortress, extensive grounds and buildings (first documented mention 1243), renovated around 1600, partly collapsed 1917 and 1932; curtain wall and fortified towers. Frescoes from the chapel (1460) exhibited in the museum in Bruck Castle (Lienz). Wooden bridge (61 m) from 1781 leading over the Villgratenbach stream.