!!!Mauterndorf

Mauterndorf, province of Salzburg, market town in the district of 
Tamsweg, alt. 1,121 m, pop. 1,663, area 32.71 km%%sup 2/%, 
tourist resort (245,088 overnight stays, particularly popular with 
tourists in winter due to its vast skiing region extending from 
Grosseck Mountain to Speiereck Mountain), situated in Taurach Valley 
in the Lungau (one of Salzburg´s five main regions), along the 
road crossing the Radstaedter Tauern Mountains. - Vehicle licensing 
office, holiday home for young people ("Musisches Heim"), home run by 
Pro Juventute children´s charity, Lungau Museum of Landscape and 
Nature, cultural centre including a multipurpose hall (in the castle), 
sports aerodrome, mineral spring at Kelchbrunn; construction industry, 
quarry with gravel works, timber processing, machine construction.- 
First documented mention of Mauterndorf in 1144, Gothic parish church 
with extensions added in Baroque style, tower enlarged in 1746, Late 
Gothic bas-reliefs (around 1520), Late-Gothic statues (around 1500), 6 
Baroque altars from the church of Tamsweg (Spitalskirche); Romanesque 
subsidiary church at St. Gertrauden, nave with a wooden ceiling, west 
gallery ornamented with paintings, Renaissance altars (1601 and 1607); 
graveyard of the Innocents; Baroque subsidiary church of St. Wolfgang 
(consecrated in 1647), many wayside chapels and numerous small wayside 
shrines; castle (erected in 1253, extensions added between the 
14%%sup th/%  and the 16%%sup th/%  centuries); castle chapel with 
Gothic frescoes (14%%sup th/%  century) and a Gothic winged altar 
(around 1455), enlarged between the 14%%sup th/%  and the 16%%sup th/% 
 centuries, gradually fell into disrepair, was rebuilt between 1894 
and 1901, now houses the cultural centre and the Lungau Museum of 
Landscape and Nature. Burghers´ residences (originally built in 
a style prevalent between the 16%%sup th/%  and the 17%%sup th/%  
centuries); old farmsteads (Einhof); Custom:  Samson Procession.

!Literature
M. Maierbrugger, Das tausendjaehrige Mauterndorf, 1967; W. 
Gappmayer, Die Burg Mauterndorf im Lungau, 1983.


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