Schönberg im Stubaital#

Schoenberg im Stubaital, Tirol, municipality in the district of Innsbruck-Land, alt. 1,026 m, pop. 916, area 7.46 km2, bi-seasonal tourism (58,110 overnight stays in 1992), located where the Stubai Valley joins the Wipptal valley. - Main toll gate of the Brennerautobahn AG, day-care centre of the Lebenshilfe welfare organisation, Ruetzwerk and Sillwerk power stations of the city of Innsbruck. - Baroque parish church (1748/49) by F. de Paula Penz with frescoes, Baroque altars (1751) and Holy Sepulchre (1770). Three inns from 1850 and "Papstl" (monument in commemoration of the passing through of Pope Pius VI, 1782) on the Brennerstrasse traffic route (built 1836-1845); the Stefansbruecke bridge (built 1842-1845) across the Ruetzschlucht gorge was the largest bridge in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy; Europabruecke Bridge (1960-1963). Ruetzwerk (1912) power station supplied the Karwendelbahn railway with electricity.

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