!!!Nassereith

Nassereith, Tirol, municipality in the district of Imst, alt. 
838 m, pop. 1953, area 72.43 km%%sup 2/%, bi-seasonal 
tourism (132,336 overnight stays, esp. in the summer), situated in the 
Gurgl valley at the southwest foot of the Mieming mountains. Long 
tradition in Christmas crib building (in former times mostly loam 
figures). Contractors´ yard of the district building authority, 
Fernstein power station, sawmill, sand-blast factory, trade, mask 
room. Historicist parish church (1846/47) with baroque North tower and 
romantic/historicist interior; in Dormitz (part of Nassereith, first 
documented mention in 1050), pilgrimage church St. Nikolaus (late 
Gothic style, interior baroque from 1746) with the mosaic "Mary with 
the Infant" (around 1900), baroque frescoes, baroque high altar and 
late Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary, Fernstein ravine (first 
documented mention in 1288, former customs post on Fernpass road); 
ruins of the Sigmundsburg hunting lodge on an island in Lake Fernstein 
(commencement of construction before 1462); bridge across Lake 
Fernstein (1856) near Lakes Samerang and Schanzl. Every third year at 
the end of winter traditional pageant called "Schellerlaufen" ("bell 
pageant", from "Schelle" = bell), where men carrying huge bells 
disguised with elaborate carved masks try to chase away the spirits of 
winter through the noise of their bells (Old Celtic tradition).

!Literature
Gemeinde Nassereith (ed.), Heimatbuch Nassereith, 1987.


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