!!!Landeck

Landeck, Tirol, town in the district of Landeck, alt. 805 m, pop. 
7,411, area 15.87 km%%sup 2/%. Traffic junction (east-west and 
north-south) at the junction of Rivers Sanna and Inn in the Oberinn 
valley. - District Commission, district court, district fire brigade, 
district forestry authority, fiscal authority, job centre, health 
agency, surveying agency; Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Labour, 
Chamber of Agriculture, health insurance agency, information centre 
and advisory board, public library. Schools: federal 
mathematics-oriented secondary school (Bundesrealgymnasium), federal 
upper-section mathematics-oriented secondary school 
(Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium), commercial academy (Handelsakademie), 
kaufmaennische Berufsschule (vocational school of trade and commerce), 
Berufsschule fuer Gastgewerbe (vocational hotel and catering school), 
landwirtschaftliche Haushaltungsschule (school of rural domestic 
science), vocational training centre, school of Alpinism. Cable car to 
the Krahberg mountain (2,208 m); the tertiary sector is 
predominant, with about 67 % of employees out of a total of 3,886 
(1991): wholesale and retail trade, (especially: shoes, textiles, 
electrical appliances, travel agencies), forwarding agents; processing 
industries (industrial estate in Perfuchs): textile industry (spinning 
mills, clothing) and chemical industry (carbide production), 
machine-building, structural steel engineering, wood working industry, 
large industries (building industry and supporting industries, 
installation companies), and especially electronic data processing. - 
First documentary mention in 1266. It emerged in 1900 when the 
settlements Angedair, Perfuchs, Perfuchsberg, Sanna, Perjen and 
Bruggen were merged. Chartered in 1923; ancient traffic junction 
(north-south junction "Via Claudia Augusta" and west-east junction 
Arlberg mountain - Inn valley) on the Arlberg road and railway. - 
Basilican parish church in late Gothic style (the only one of its kind 
in North Tirol, consecrated in 1493 and 1521) with a winged 
altar-piece in late Gothic style; Capuchin church (consecrated in 
1752); Burschlkirche church (consecrated in 1656); Landeck Castle 
(13%%sup th/%  century, extensions were built in the 15%%sup th/%  and 
16%%sup th/%  centuries) with murals (1522). The castle was turned 
into a local museum between 1967 and 1973 (oldest playing cards of the 
German-speaking countries, which were found in Fliess, art treasures 
of Tirol). Customs and traditions: Scheibenschlagen (the "beating of 
glowing discs"), an Alemannic tradition on "Funkensonntag" (the first 
Sunday in Lent).

!Literature
Landecker Buch, 2 vols., 1956; Oesterr. Staedtebuch, vol. 
V, part 1, Die Staedte Tirols, 1980; Stadtgemeinde Landeck (ed.), Das 
Buch der Stadt Landeck, 1973.


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