!!!Seefeld

Seefeld in Tirol, Tirol, municipality in the district of 
Innsbruck-Land, alt. 1,180 m, pop. 2,751, area 
17.38 km%%sup 2/%, bi-seasonal tourist centre (1,376,717 
overnight stays in 1992), old pilgrimage destination situated on an 
elevated plateau, surrounded by the Hohe Munde mountain in the west, 
the face of the Wetterstein mountain in the north-west and the 
Karwendel Mountains in the north-east. Derives its name from the 
number of lakes in the area in earlier times (in German: See), the 
only remaining one is Lake Wildsee (public bathing facility, nature 
preserve), in the vicinity are Lake Moeserer See (alt. 1,284 m) 
and Wildmoos, where the periodically occurring lakes Lottensee and 
Wildmoossee are situated (alt. 1,316 m, nature preserve, bog 
flora). - Spa hotel operating a warm spring with a low concentration 
of calcium magnesium sulphate and hydrogen carbonate; in earlier 
times, oil shale extraction and rock oil distillery, today at  Reith 
bei Seefeld; Olympia sports and congress centre, venue of the Nordic 
events during the Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck (1964, 1976); 
sports grounds of the Nordic Championships in 1985, golf courses (some 
run by the municipality of Telfs) and golf academy, Rosshuette 
mountain track and cable railways: funicular to Rosshuette mountain 
refuge (alt. 1,751 m), cable railway to Seefelder Joch mountain 
(alt. 2,060 m) and Haermelekopf mountain (alt. 2,224 m); 
casino. - Late-Gothic parish and pilgrimage church (started in 1429) 
with beautiful south portal (around 1470), late-Gothic sculptures and 
panel painting (around 1502) in the chancel by J. Koelderer; 
Heiligenblut (Holy Blood) chapel (1574 by A. Lucchese, re-decorated in 
Baroque style in 1724); former Augustinian monastery; Seekirche 
Heiliges Kreuz early Baroque church (consecrated in 1666).

!Literature
R. Gruber, Geschichte von Seefeld 1918-1938, 
master´s thesis, Innsbruck 1992.


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