Natters#

Natters, Tirol, municipality in the district of Innsbruck Land, alt. 783 m, pop. 1,788, area 7.33 km2, summer and winter tourism (especially day trips, 60,888 overnight stays), situated in the foothills of the mountains to the south of Innsbruck. Hospital, Raiffeisen sports centre (with ski jump), skiing, building maintenance company, wood processing, first documented mention in 1151. Originally late-Gothic parish church, Baroque alterations around 1770 but re-Gothicised in 1884. Sun-dial (1759, designed by P. Anich, painted by J. A. Zoller) on the south tower, neo-Gothic high altar with late-Gothic crucifixion group (around 1480), marble tomb (1592). Former Waidburg estate (municipal office), houses with decorative gables and Baroque frescoes, "Kaiserdenkmal" ("Emperor´s Memorial", 1768, since 1963 on the Brenner road). In the vicinity, Lake Natterer See (recreation centre, mud baths).

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