!!!Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer

Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer, province of Salzburg, market town in 
the district of Zell am See, alt. 744 m, pop. 12,604, area 
118.67 km%%sup 2/%, bi-seasonal tourist resort (290,780 overnight 
stays in 1992) near the confluence of the Urslau and Saalach rivers, 
Pinzgau Region. - District Court, Wallner-Kaserne barracks, regional 
health and social insurance agency, builder´s yard of the 
regional management for torrent and avalanche control, forestry 
enterprise of the Austrian Federal Forests AG, family counselling, 
social care centre, day-care centre of the Lebenshilfe charity, 
Ritzensee hospital-sanatorium (private), Ludwig Boltzmann Institute 
for the rehabilitation of internal diseases, Ritzensee mud bath, 
advanced-level commercial school, federal boarding school, adult 
education centre, at Ritzenschloss Palace, museum with largest 
collection of Christmas cribs and nativity scenes in Austria, centre 
of contemporary music, Saalfelden jazzfestival, banqueting hall (800 
seats), 2 golf courses, summer toboggan run, water treatment works, in 
the vicinity, Diessbach storage power station (26 Mw, built 
jointly with the municipality of Weissbach bei Lofer in 1964 and 
1967), about 68 % of the 4,522 inhabitants in gainful employment 
(1991) work in the service sector: mainly personal, social and public 
services, trade (furniture, wholesale markets); packaging industry, 
textile industry and timber industry, portal construction and steel 
construction, asphalt processing plant, commercial stone-crushing 
plant. - First documented mention around 790; neo-Romanesque deanery 
parish church (reconstruction 1861) with western tower, Gothic crypt, 
interior largely dates back to 1859-1869 (late Gothic winged altar, 
not accessible to the public); Lichtenberg Palace (rebuilt around 
1580, after 1872 redecorated in Romanticist style); Farmach Palace 
(rebuilt during the 16%%sup th/%  century, now old people´s 
home); Dorfheim Palace (reconstruction 1601); Ritzenschloss Palace; 
nearby, Lake Ritzensee.

!Literature
J. Lahnsteiner, Mitterpinzgau, Saalbach, Saalfelden, 
Lofer, Salzburgisches Saaletal geschichtlich und heimatkundlich 
beschrieben, 1962; A. Eder (ed.), Chronik Saalfeldens, 2 vols., 
1992.


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