!!!Kitzbühel

Kitzbuehel, Tirol, town in the district of Kitzbuehel, alt. 
762 m, pop. 8,119 (in 1981: pop. 7,840), area 
58.02 km%%sup 2/%, most important town of the Leukental Valley 
and one of the best-known winter sports resorts in Austria (950,838 
overnight stays), situated at the foot of the Kitzbueheler Horn 
mountain (1,996 m); open-air mud bath. - District commission, 
district court, rural police authorities, district fire brigade, 
health department of District Commission, internal revenue office, 
office of surveying, Tirolean water authorities, Chamber of Labour, 
Economic Chamber, Chamber of Agriculture, health insurance office, 
hospital, counselling centre, artificial ice rink, golf course, 
casino. Flying school, several types of schools: Vocational school of 
commerce, commercial academy, adult education centre; Hahnenkamm cabin 
cableway (Hahnenkamm mountain 1,712 m), cableway: 
Kitzbueheler-Horn-Bahn). In 1991, 75 % of the 4,890 gainfully 
employed people were working in the service sector; mostly in the 
hotel business and Bergbahn AG (cableway company), which are important 
seasonal economic factors), other industries: machine building and 
textile industry (manufacture of Austrian traditional costumes), 
building industry. - Prehistoric settlement, first documented mention 
as "Chizbuhel" in 1165 and chartered in 1271, since 1505 part of 
Tirol; silver and copper mining brought great prosperity in the 
16%%sup th/% and 17%%sup th/%  centuries; medieval town plan with 
three and four-storey gabled houses (15%%sup th/% -16%%sup th/% 
 century); late Gothic parish church, re-designed in Baroque 
style (1435-1506), in 1786 Baroque interior, ceiling painting (1847), 
Gothic wall paintings (14%%sup th/% -15%%sup th/% .), Rosa chapel 
(15%%sup th/%  century, stucco-work around 1750) with Gothic 
Madonna (around 1455), early Baroque high altar (documented mention in 
1661-1663) and statues by B. Faistenberger; Gothic Church of Our Lady 
(Liebfrauenkirche, 14%%sup th/%  century) with Baroque frescoes 
by Faistenberger (1739); late Gothic Mount Olive chapel; Capuchin 
church and monastery (around 1702); church of St. Catherine 
(14%%sup th/%  century) with late Gothic winged altar (around 
1520); former citizens´ hospital with church (1837); Protestant 
church (built 1962 by C. Holzmeister); Kapsburg mansion (16%%sup th/% 
 century); Lebenberg Castle; Pfleghof Castle with massive tower 
and adjacent town gate, the Jochberger Tor; old Einhof farmsteads near 
Kitzbuehel; first farmhouse museum in Tirol, museum of local art and 
history (finds of copper mining from the late Bronze Age at the  
Kelchalm), Lake Schwarzsee lies to the northwest of Kitzbuehel near 
the Schleier waterfall; excellent skiing pistes on the Kitzbuehel Alps 
in the immediate vicinity of Kitzbuehel; international Hahnenkamm ski 
races held every year in January (since 1931).

!Literature
E. Widmoser (ed.), Stadtbuch Kitzbuehel, 4 vols., 1967-71; 
Oesterr. Staedtebuch, vol. V, part 1, Die Staedte Tirols, 1980.


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