!!!Lienz

Lienz, Tirol, town in the district of Lienz, alt. 675 m, pop. 
11,864, area 15.94 km%%sup 2/%, main town of East Tirol, where 
the River Isel flows into the River Drau/Drava. -District authority, 
district court, forestry commission, fire department, job centre, 
inland revenue office, standards institute, surveyor´s office 
and customs office, administration of federal buildings, offices of 
the Tirolean government (agricultural department, surveyor´s 
office for cultural affairs), labour inspectorate, district 
surveyor´s office, Franz-Josef and Haspinger barracks, hospital, 
Tirolean alpine rescue service, area commission for torrent and 
avalanche control, offices of the Chamber of Labour and Economic 
Chamber, district Chamber of Agriculture, regional health insurance 
office, pension insurance agency for workers, East Tirol educational 
institute (with educational guidance office), information centre for 
marriage and family counselling, psychosocial and child guidance, 
local office of Caritas, Nikolsdorf airfield, air base of the Federal 
Ministry of Internal Affairs, Dolomiten multi-purpose hall and 
stadium, golf course, civic hall, museum of the town of Lienz, 
historical and folkloristic department, Egger-Lienz Gallery, 
prehistoric and Roman finds, Tirolean farm museum as starting point 
for Lienz open-air museum, which stretches from Kloesterleschmiede 
(around 1500, original inventory, since 1966 museum) to upper Lienz; 
town gallery; SOS children´s village (municipality of 
Nussdorf-Debant), hostel of the Kolping apprentices´ charity. 
Schools: Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium, 
Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium, Handelsakademie (commercial academy), 
Federal boarding school, metal-working vocational school, domestic 
science school of the Dominican sisters, Hoehere Bildungslehranstalt 
fuer wirtschaftlliche Berufe (advanced-level commercial school), 
agricultural college, vocational school, production office of the 
Austrian Broadcasting Company, Protestant free church, Tertiary 
sisters. Newspapers: "Kleine Zeitung" (local office), "Osttiroler 
Bote"; monocable to Zettersfeld (youth centre), transformer station, 
hydropower station; nearby run-of-river power station Amlach (built in 
1989, 60 MW). 7,530 gainfully employed persons (1991), with 
around 65 % in the service sector (private, social and public 
services, wholesale and retail trade, Lienz savings bank); trade and 
industry (industrial zone at the border of the municipality of 
Nussdorf-Debant): machine construction and structural steel 
engineering (refrigerators, steel construction), building industry and 
trade, wood-working plants, brewery, concrete factory, hat factory (in 
Nussdorf-Debant), firms of Raiffeisen co-operative (e.g. dairy, 
agricultural machinery trade), bi-seasonal tourism (205,301 overnight 
stays). - Documented mention around 1022-1039 as "Luenzina", town from 
about 1240. The counts of Gorizia were founders of the town and until 
1500 town fathers, later joined Tirol, from the Middle Ages until the 
19%%sup th/%  century ore mining and processing. Became part of Gau 
Carinthia in 1938, since 1947 again part of Tirol. - Town parish 
church, basilica with 3 naves and parts from the 14%%sup th/%  century 
renovated between 1430-1457, chancel remodelled in Baroque style 
between 1760-1765, in the 19%%sup th/%  century classicist and 
neo-Gothic modifications, in the western part Romanesque portal lions, 
gallery balustrade with Gothic cycle of figures (1430), Pietà 
(1410), crucifix (1500), tombstones (16%%sup th/%  century), chancel 
frescos by J. A. Moelk (1761), high altar (1765), stained glass 
windows (1881-1897) in the aisles, crypt with remains from prior 
buildings and Gothic sculptures, arcades around the church turned into 
war memorial, memorial chapel with frescos by A. Egger-Lienz (his 
tomb). Franciscan monastery (rebuilt between 1697-1707) and Franciscan 
church (15%%sup th/%  century) with murals (15%%sup th/%  century); 
late-Gothic beneficed church of St. Michael with Baroque tower, side 
altars (around 1640) in Renaissance-like early Baroque design; 
Dominican convent and Dominican church (rebuilt around 1244, 1637 
consecrated after reconstruction); Gothic-Baroque Buergerspital church 
(consecrated in 1746 and 1770); in the backyard of former hospital for 
incurables, oldest remaining shrine of Tirol (around 1400) with 
frescos; Antonius chapel (documented mention 1556) at the east side of 
the main square in the centre; Martin Luther Church (consecrated in 
1962, only Protestant church in East Tirol); Bruck Palace (documented 
mention in 1277, centre 13%%sup th/%  century, components from the 
16%%sup th/% /18%%sup th/%  centuries, frescos inside chapel from 
1490-1496), walls of town fortification almost completely preserved; 
Isel tower; Liebburg Palace (17%%sup th/% -18%%sup th/%  centuries); 
town hall (1770-1772); Tammerburg Castle (16%%sup th/% -17%%sup th/%  
centuries); column dedicated to the Virgin Mary (1716); in the 
vicinity, Lake Tristach. In the town, military cemeteries: near St. 
Andrae cemetery from World War I with Emperor Karl memorial chapel 
(1935/36) and war cemetery from World War II, in Peggetz Cossack, 
cemetery with 18 mass graves from 1945.

!Literature
Oesterr. Staedtebuch, vol. V, part 1, Die Staedte Tirols, 
1980; M. Pizzinini, Osttirol - Der Bezirk Lienz, seine Kunstwerke, 
historische Lebens- und Siedlungsformen, 1974; idem, Lienz, Das grosse 
Stadtbuch, 1982.


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