!!!Kirchberg in Tirol

Kirchberg in Tirol, Tirol, municipality in the district of Kitzbuehel, 
alt. 837 m, pop. 4,092, area 97.79 km%%sup 2/%, popular 
bi-seasonal tourist centre (1,036,430 overnight stays), lying to the 
west of Kitzbuehel, where the Sperten Valley joins the Brixen Valley. 
- Multipurpose complex hall, workers´ home, vocational school, 
post of the Tirolean alpine rescue service, social service for workers 
in the building industry and in forestry, "Haus Nuernberg" Protestant 
holiday home Fleckalm cableway to Ehrenbachhoehe 
mountain(1,802 m); wool and wood manufacturing. - In the Middle 
Ages and up to around 1780, silver and copper mining; late Gothic 
parish church with Baroque alterations in 1737 with ceiling and wall 
paintings by S. B. Faistenberger (1739), enlarged in 1977/1978 by 
C. Holzmeister; Baroque pilgrimage chapel at Kirchanger (1765-1768); 
Holy Cross church in Aschau in Baroque style (1782/1783); Klausen 
chapel (1750) and several other chapels (17%%sup th/% 
-19th century); old single-building farmsteads (Einhof) from the 
17%%sup th/% and 18%%sup th/%  centuries; completely preserved 
oil press (19%%sup th/%  century); traditions and customs: the 
yearly Brixental Antlassritt (Corpus Christi horse procession).


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