!!!Oberlienz

Oberlienz, Tirol, municipality in the district of Lienz, alt. 
756 m, pop. 1,326, area 33.80 km%%sup 2/%, 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 (17%%sup th/%  -19%%sup th/%  century). 
Farmsteads with frescoes and decorative painted façades.

!Literature
E. Totschnig, Chronik von Oberlienz, 1978.


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