Oberlienz#

Oberlienz, Tirol, municipality in the district of Lienz, alt. 756 m, pop. 1,326, area 33.80 km2, at the entrance of the Isel valley, north-west of Lienz. - International Summer Academy, open-air museum; summer tourism (29, 473 overnight stays). - Parish church in late Gothic style (1416, around 1762 adaptation in Baroque style), fresco on the exterior (around 1460-1470) by the Brixen School, windows by the Tiroler Glasmalerei Studio and vault paintings (1824); cemetery chapel with life-sized wooden figures ("Grueftl-Juden", donated in 1707); branch church, originally in Gothic style with Baroque adaptations, in Oberdrum; branch church of St. Helen´s in late Gothic style (before 1532) with 2 old bells (around 1300); chapels (17th -19th century). Farmsteads with frescoes and decorative painted façades.

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