!!!Kuchl

Kuchl, province of Salzburg, market town in the district of Hallein, 
alt. 468 m, pop. 5,926, area 46.90 km%%sup 2/%, situated in 
the Salzach Valley, south of Hallein. - Maternity home, schools: 
Hoehere technische Lehranstalt (HTL, upper-level technical school) for 
the wood industry and sawing technology with a research institute, 
vocational school, private school of interior design; Fachhochschule, 
gypsum extraction and processing, numerous wood-processing businesses 
(sawmills, joiner's shops, log house construction), machine 
construction (comminuting machines, combustion plants), building 
industry, summer tourism (99,558 overnight stays). - On Georgenberg 
hill (alt. 528 m, in the cadastral district of Georgenberg), 
which has been settled since the Neolithic, there was a Roman 
settlement called Cucullis, which is mentioned in the Vita Severini 
("The Life of St. Severinus") and already had a Christian 
community; Late Gothic subsidiary church of St. Georg (tower from 
1682); Late Gothic parish church with Late Gothic crypt, western 
gallery (1492) and old ledgers (13%%sup th/%  to 17%%sup th/%  
centuries).

!Literature
L. Ziller, Beitraege zur Geschichte von Kuchl, 1956; 
Marktgemeinde Kuchl (ed.), Heimatbuch Kuchl, 1980.


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