Kaprun#

Kaprun, province of Salzburg, municipality in the district of Zell am See, alt. 786 m, pop. 2,901, area 100.41 km2, popular summer and winter resort (757,774 overnight stays, summer skiing on Kitzsteinhorn Mountain); Kaprun is in the Kaprun Valley, a side valley of the Salzach Valley in the Hohe Tauern Mountains; several peaks with more than 3,000 m at the glaciated end of the valley: Kitzsteinhorn (3,203 m), Grosser Baerenkopf (3,396 m), Klockerin (3,425 m), Grosses Wiesbachhorn (3,564 m). Municipal facilities: Bundessportheim Kitzsteinhorn (hostel with sport facilities), Kaprun Alpine centre (near Lake Schmiedingersee and Schmiedingerkees Mountain with panorama tunnel, summer skiing area), youth hostel, hostel accommodating children on skiing weeks organised by schools, Austrian Society for Alpine Medicine, training facilities of the Austrian alpine rescue service, gymnasium, municipal hall, recreation centre, Glockner-Kaprun mountaineering school of the Naturfreunde ("friends of nature" club), Mooserboden exhibition centre; Kaprun-Hauptstufe storage power station (built in 1944-1951, 220 MW), Sigmund-Thun-Klamm, a gorge with a small storage power station, Kaprun-Oberstufe (power station built in 1954, 112.8 MW), Limberg dam (120 m) with the Wasserfallboden reservoir (1,672 m), near the Kesselfallklamm, a gorge with the Kesselfall waterfall (40m), (Limberg tunnel giving access to the Limberg power station), Laerchwand inclined lift, Mooserboden and Drossen dam (both about 110 m) with the Mooserboden reservoir (2,036 m, linked with the Margaritze reservoir by a connecting tunnel, 11.5km); cableways: Kaprun 1, a cableway to the Langwiedboden (1978 m), Kaprun 2, a funicular railway to the Alpine centre (2,452 m) and Kaprun 3, a cableway to the summit terminal (3,029 m); 12 lifts in the glacier area Kitzsteinhorn Mountain; Tauern transformer station; Plastics industry (sheets, plastic moulding). First documented mention in 931; parish church (neo-Romanesque alterations in 1898, neo-Gothic high altar); castle ruins with Baroque castle chapel (restored since 1975); local heritage museum.

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