!!!Sellrain

Sellrain, Tyrol, municipality in the district of Innsbruck Land, alt. 
908 m, pop. 1,268, area 62.00 km%%sup 2/%, main town of the  
Sellrain Valley on the lower reaches of the Melach stream. - TIWAG 
storage power stations at Sellrain-Silz/Kuehtai (constructed in 1981, 
289 megawatts) and at Sellrain-Silz/Silz (constructed in 1981, 
500 megawatts); tourism (22,907 overnight stays in 1992). - 
Baroque parish church (dedicated in 1705) in Rothenbrunn; late Gothic 
pilgrimage church (1487-1496, oldest church in the valley), alt. 
1,243 m; late Gothic shrine figures, statuettes of the apostles 
(around 1380-1400), Romanesque panel painting (1850), Red Chapel 
(1726).

!Literature
F. Berger, Das Sellraintal, 4 vols., doctoral thesis, 
Innsbruck 1968.


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