!!!Pfaffenhofen

Pfaffenhofen, Tirol, municipality in the district of Innsbruck-Land, 
alt. 642 m, pop. 979, area 7.00 km%%sup 2/%, in the Upper 
Inn valley, on the south bank of the River Inn, opposite Telfs. - 
Branch of the advanced-level commercial school of Innsbruck, female 
religious educational orders; concrete factory, trade in furniture, 
tourism. - Documented mention in 1197; underneath the present parish 
church (consecrated in 1310, redecorated in Baroque style, later 
re-Gothicised), remains of an early Christian church (5%%sup th/% 
/6%%sup th/%  centuries) with one nave but without an apse and of a 
hall church with east apse and 2 richly decorated men's graves (around 
700); north of the church, field of serial graves (7%%sup th/% 
/8%%sup th/%  centuries, of Bavarian origin); Hoertenberg castle ruin; 
Pfaffenhofen tower (documented mention in 1269).

!Literature
E.-A. Wegert, Telfs, Paffenhofen and Oberhofen, doctoral 
thesis, Innsbruck 1970.


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