!!!Neumarkt am Wallersee

Neumarkt am Wallersee, province of Salzburg, market town in the 
district of Salzburg-Land, alt. 552m, pop. 4,457, area 
36.26 km%%sup 2/%, northeast of Lake Wallersee in the Flachgau 
region. - District court, Chamber of Labour, Paracelsus community 
college, banqueting hall, various secondary schools (commercial 
academy, Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium (federal upper level 
mathematics-oriented secondary school), secondary schools for economic 
occupations); dynamic economic structure esp. in industries and trade: 
electrical industry, conveyor belt production, office chairs and 
furniture, construction and related trades, chemical industry, 
supraregional waste processing facility, plastics engineering, trade, 
summer tourism (28,269 overnight stays) - Early documented mention of 
Pfongau (around 770 and 834) and Neufahrn (around 790) (both on 
municipal territory). - Historicist parish church (1887) surrounded by 
an earth wall (1638/39) with early Baroque gate tower and cemetery 
(since 1784, Neo-Renaissance style). Late-Gothic filial churches in 
Neufahrn, Pfongau and Sommerholz (Baroque alterations); Baroque castle 
in Pfongau (18%%sup th/%  century). To the east of Neumarkt am 
Wallersee Baroque Sighartsstein Castle with castle chapel rebuilt 
1614); impressive Baroque and Rococo houses. Museum of local history 
and culture.

!Literature
J. Goiginger, Neumarkt am Wallersee. Die Entstehung seiner 
Landschaft und seiner Geschichte, 1993.


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