St. Jakob in Defereggen#

St. Jakob in Defereggen, Tirol, municipality in the district of Lienz, alt. 1,389 m, pop. 1,005, area 185.95 km2, bi-seasonal tourist resort (358,042 overnight stays in 1992) and high-altitude health resort in the Hinteres Defereggen Valley; contains the highest-lying farm (alt. 1,712 m) in East Tirol. - Customs department, recreation home of the Carinthian regional health and social insurance agency, run-of-river power plant on the Trojer Almbach stream and Brugger Almbach stream, disused mines. - Classicist parish church (1827-1830), frescoes (1935); St. Leonhard's filial church (1464 and after 1480) with vault frescoes (around 1500) by Simon von Taisten.

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