!!!Spital am Pyhrn

Spital am Pyhrn, Upper Austria, municipality in the district of 
Kirchdorf an der Krems, alt. 640 m, pop. 2,197, area 
108.90 km%%sup 2/%, bi-seasonal tourist resort (147,452 overnight 
stays) on the Pyhrn Pass road, at the west foot of Haller Mauern 
Mountain Range (Grosser Pyhrgas Mountain, alt. 2,244 m). - 
Wurzeralm Provincial Young People´s Home, Lindenhof Young 
People´s Home, museum of rock paintings in the monastery, 
funicular leading to Wurzeralm alpine pasture (alt. 1,427 m, 
nature reserve), Trattenbachfall electricity works, transformer 
station close to Bosruck Tunnel; door manufacturers and metal works - 
Former Augustinian Canons´ collegiate monastery (1418), founded 
as a hospital in 1190, closed in 1807; former collegiate church, now 
parish church (1714-1736), tall Baroque reconstruction (attributed to 
J. M. Prunner), frescoes (1737-1740), a masterpiece by B. 
Altomonte, several paintings by M. J. Schmidt, stucco work by 
D. A. Carlone (1724), high altar by V. Koeniger (1769); monastery 
building (1642-1700, now parish house); column dedicated to the Holy 
Trinity (1771) with sculptures by Koeniger; two-storey late-Gothic 
church of St. Leonhard (1439 and 1462) on the Pyhrn Pass road; lower 
church on top of a rock, upper church with altar pieces by M. J. 
Schmidt (1780); wayside shrine (1677) with late-Gothic group of 
figures dating from the early 16%%sup th/%  century. - 
Dr.-Vogelgesang-Klamm gorge on the Klammbach stream (longest narrow 
rock gorge in Upper Austria).

!Literature
H. Krawarik (ed.), Dorf im Gebirge. Spital am Pyhrn 
1190-1990, 1990.


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