Nauders#

Nauders, Tirol, municipality in the district of Landeck, alt. 1,394 m, pop. 1,487, area 90.29 km2, centre of bi-seasonal tourism (535,143 overnight stays) between Finstermuenz Pass and Reschen Pass; frontier village at the Swiss and Italian borders. Customs office and customs post, Bergkastlbahn ropeway to the Bergkastlboden mountain. Roman station "Inutrium", one of the oldest parishes supposedly founded by St. Valentine in the 5th century. First documented mention 1150 as "Nudres", Tyrolean customs post at a very important North-South connection from about 1300 at the latest, strong Rhaeto-Romanic influence. Parish church in Oberdorf built in 1509 in the place of an older one, baroque modifications followed by historicist adaptations in 1832, late Gothic carved altar, high altar in 1863. Early Baroque Mariahilfkirche church in the village centre around 1650, high altar 1730-1740; Romanesque Leonhard chapel near Naudersberg Castle (12th century) with frescoes in the altar room, which are among the oldest in Austria (Jesus Christ in the mandorla with 12 apostles); Naudersberg Castle (begun in the 14th century, today restaurant and museum) with Princes´ Room (late Gothic moulding panels and Empire painting); former customs castle of Hochfinstermuenz (first documented mention in 1263). In the village centre, houses with arched gateways and flights of stairs; to the southwest of Nauders Lake Schwarzer See and Lake Gruensee.

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