!!!Kaprun

Kaprun, province of Salzburg, municipality in the district of Zell am 
See, alt. 786 m, pop. 2,901, area 100.41 km%%sup 2/%, 
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.

!Literature
G. Nyvelt, Kaprun einst und jetzt, %%sup 2/%1986.


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