!!!Muhr

Muhr, province of Salzburg, municipality in the district of Tamsweg, 
alt. 1,124 m, pop. 673 (1981: pop. 747), area 
115.96 km%%sup 2/%, in the Murwinkel area, Lungau region; parts 
of the municipality lie in the Hohe Tauern National Park. - Storage 
power stations Hintermuhr (built 1991, 36.2 MW) and Rotguelden 
(built 1956, 5.9 MW), Murfall small power station (built 1992, 
0.76 MW). Some summer tourism. - Baroque parish church (1532 first 
documented mention, extended 1732) with columned high altar (1732), in 
summer "Corpus Christi poles" (Prangstangen); chapels (19%%sup th/%  
to 20%%sup th/%  centuries); former arsenic mine (oldest mining 
activity of the Lungau region, 2%%sup nd/%  half of 14%%sup th/%  
century); ruins of a gold mine settlement in Schellgaden; custom:  
Samson Procession; Murfall waterfall, Lakes Oberer Rotgueldensee and 
Unterer Rotgueldensee nearby.


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