!!!Ischgl

Ischgl, Tirol, municipality in the district of Landeck, alt. 
1,376 m, pop. 1,280, area 103.43 km%%sup 2/%, winter sports 
centre (1,019.851 overnight stays, "Silvretta-Skiarena") and principal 
village in the Paznaun Valley. - District Surveyor's Office, customs 
post, Silvrettabahn and Fimbabahn funicular railways up Idalpe 
mountain (2,308 m), gondola ropeway up Pardatscher Grat mountain 
(2,618 m); wood processing industry. - Baroque parish church 
(1755-1757) with late Gothic tower, Baroque church in Mathon 
(1674-1682), 1881 altered in neo-Romanesque style; chapels in and 
around Ischgl (17%%sup th/% -18%%sup th/%  centuries), Calvary with 
crucifixion group (1763).

!Literature
R. Schober, Chronik von Ischgl, 1975; E. Cimarolli, 
Ischgl. Vom Bergbauerndorf zum internationalen Wintersportort, 1989.


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