Hopfgarten im Brixental#

Hopfgarten im Brixental, Tirol, market town in the district of Kitzbuehel, alt. 621 m, pop. 5,196, area 166.57 km2, bi-seasonal tourism (414,856 overnight stays), centre of the Brixental valley. District court, forestry enterprise of the Oesterreichische Bundesforste AG, Salvista mountain railway leading up the Hohe Salve (1,828 m), electric power station, St. Marien nunnery, stud farm of the Noriker breeding association. 1,279 employed persons (1991), 57 % work in the service sector (commerce, restaurant business, personal, social, public services); manufacturing sector: leather factory, brickyard, medical equipment, saw-milling industry, steel construction industry. Baroque parish church (1758-64) with twin-tower façade and late-Gothic baptismal font; parish church in Kelchsau (1849/50); St. Elsbeth chapel (founded 1494, 19th  century alterations); remains of Engelsberg fortress ruins (destroyed in the peasants´ war in 1526); houses on the market place (16th  century core); rural "Einhof" farm buildings.