!!!Schönberg im Stubaital

Schoenberg im Stubaital, Tirol, municipality in the district of 
Innsbruck-Land, alt. 1,026 m, pop. 916, area 
7.46 km%%sup 2/%, 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.

!Literature
O. Auer, Orts- und Flurnamen von Schoenberg im Stubaital, 
1991.


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