!!!Nauders

Nauders, Tirol, municipality in the district of Landeck, alt. 
1,394 m, pop. 1,487, area 90.29 km%%sup 2/%, 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.

!Literature
G. Hoertnagl, Nauders. Grenzdorf im Aufbruch, 1973.


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