!!!Heinfels

Heinfels, Tirol, municipality in the district of Lienz, alt. 
1079 m, pop. 905, area 14.56 km%%sup 2/%, 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 
(15%%sup th/%  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.


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