!!!Igls

Igls, Tirol, village on the River Sill in the district of Innsbruck, 
alt. 870 m, situated on a plateau at the foot of Patscherkofel 
Mountain; summer holiday resort since the 19%%sup th/%  century; 
international winter-sports area south of Innsbruck; administered by 
Innsbruck since 1942. - Congress centre, spa park, sanatorium Park 
Hotel, ice skating rink, cable car to Patscherkofel Mountain 
(2,246 m); nature reserve and skiing area. The Olympic Winter 
Games were held in Igls in 1964 and 1976: downhill-racing from 
Patscherkofel mountain to Innsbruck; bobsled racing. Tourist centre 
and residential area. - Gothic-Baroque parish church (consecrated in 
1479; remodelled in Baroque style between 1700 and 1705); ceiling 
frescoes and wall paintings by J. Schmutzer (1777); altar pieces by J. 
Lampi the Elder (1781), J. Arnold and L. Kupelwieser; charnel house 
with late-Gothic fresco (1486); pilgrimage church of Heiligwasser 
(1662); Hohenburg palace (first documented mention in 1345); Taxburg 
Castle near Lake Lansersee; largest stand of stone pine trees in the 
Eastern Alps between Patscherkofel Mountain and Glungezer Mountain.

!Literature
P. Zerlauth, Igls. Vom Bauerndorf zum Stadtteil von 
Innsbruck, master´s thesis, Innsbruck 1991.


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