!!!Schwarzach im Pongau

Schwarzach im Pongau, province of Salzburg, market town in the 
district of Sankt Johann, alt. 601 m, pop. 3,489, area 
3.20 km%%sup 2/%, railway junction in the middle of the Salzach 
valley. - Motor vehicle test station, forestry commission, hospital 
with nursing school, Lebenshilfe welfare organisation, sports and 
festival hall, Schwarzach (built in 1958, 120 MW) and Wallnerau (built 
in 1989, 17.1 MW) power stations of the Tauernkraftwerke AG; 
Schwarzach´s most important employers are the hospital and the 
Austrian Federal Railways (station and workshops), large photo 
laboratory, aluminium processing industry, building and construction 
trade, tourism (16,998 overnight stays in 1992). - Baroque vicariate 
church (1736-1741), reconstructed and enlarged after a fire in 1981 by 
C. Holzmeister, who integrated the surviving Baroque interior (high 
altar with columns); Schernberg Palace (Gothic core, altered in the 
19%%sup th/%  century, today hospital and care institution); the 
palace also houses the filial church of the Visitation of Mary, with 
late-Gothic winged altar and Gothic sculpture of the Virgin Mary 
(around 1450); in the town hall so-called "Salt licker 
table" (1729), where the Protestant Peasants of Pongau met (and 
licked salt from their fingers as a sign of their determination to 
keep their belief) in 1731 before the Great Salzburg Protestant 
Emigration (expulsion of around 30,000 Protestants).


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