!!!Radstadt

Radstadt, province of Salzburg, town in the district of 
St. Johann, alt. 862 m, pop. 4,194, area 
60.82 km%%sup 2/%, bi-seasonal tourism (454,183 overnight stays 
in 1992), situated opposite the confluence of Taurach stream and Enns 
River in the upper Ennstal valley at the foot of Rossbrand Mountain; 
intersection of ancient roads connecting the eastern and western 
mountain areas (Ennstal - upper Salzachtal Valley - Tirol) as well as 
the north and south (Salzburg - Lungau - Carinthia - Adria). - 
District court, two local heritage museums (at Kapuzinerturm and 
Lerchen Castle), Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium secondary school, 
federal hostel for school excursions (Bundesschullandheim), recreation 
home for young persons, two ski-jump hills (40m and 30m high); car 
equipment production, meat products factory, wood processing, forestry 
enterprise of the Oesterreichische Bundesforste AG (Austrian Federal 
Forests). - Founded in the 13%%sup th/%  century, conferred the status 
of town in 1289. The town, which at first kept the original name of 
Altenmarkt, was of considerable strategic importance for the 
protection of the Ennstal Valley in Salzburg and the road crossing the 
Radstaedter Tauern pass; in the course of the peasants' war of 1526 
the town was besieged but not taken. - Most parts of the town wall 
(1289) and its towers have been preserved; former castle (1629-1980 
Capuchin monastery, today rectory); Steirertor (laid bare in 1983); 
late-Romanesque and Gothic parish church with choir (1417), altered in 
Romanesque style after 1872; late Gothic lantern (popular name 
"Schustersaeule"/"shoemaker's column", 1513) in the cemetery; two 
filial churches in Baroque style (former Capuchin church, 1629-1735; 
Maria Loreto, construction from1677), Protestant parish church (1995); 
town hall (16%%sup th/%  - 17%%sup th/%  centuries); Castles: Lerchen 
(1529, old-age home since 1905, local heritage museum in oldest part), 
Mauer (16%%sup th/%  century, coffered ceilings), Dandalier 
(altered in 1569); ancient Paarhof and Haufenhof farmstead types 
(17%%sup th/%  and 18%%sup th/%  centuries).

!Literature
F. Zaisberger and F. Koller (eds.), Die alte Stadt im 
Gebirge, 1989.


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