!!!St. Johann im Pongau

St. Johann im Pongau, province of Salzburg, market town in the 
district of St  Johann, alt. 615 m, pop. 8,855, area 
78.00 km%%sup 2/%, most important market town in the Pongau area, 
commercial centre, tourism (407,227 overnight stays in 1992) in the 
middle of the Salzachtal Valley. -District commission, district 
gendarmerie, Chamber of Agriculture, fiscal authority, health agency 
and surveying agency, economic chamber, forestry and forestry 
technology enterprise of the Oesterreichische Bundesforste AG 
(Austrian Federal Forests), Krobatin barracks, probation office, 
family counselling, Hilfswerk relief organisation, Bundesgymnasium 
secondary school and Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium secondary school, 
commercial academy, vocational school, advanced-level commercial 
school (private), ballet school, cultural and congress centre, 
district heating plant, St. Johann run-of-river power plant 
(built in 1990, 16.5 MW), Arthurwerk power plant (built in 1918, 
5.7 MW), Urreiting power plant (built in 1985, 16.8 MW) and 
Plankenau power plant (built in 1922, 11.2 MW, partly owned by 
the municipality of St. Veit im Pongau), Wagrain-St. Johann 
storage power plant (built in 1987, 16.4 MW); Alpendorf cab cable 
railway; various companies with 3,520 employees (1991): services 
predominant (about 69 % of all employed persons, mainly personal, 
social and public services, trade, tourism), wood and textile 
industry. - First documented mention in 930; neo-Gothic three-nave 
deanery church (built after a fire in 1855) with 2 towers, most 
important historicist building in the Province of Salzburg, murals 
(1898), altars (1900), St. Anna's chapel (formerly late Gothic 
ossuary) with late Gothic wood carvings (around 1530-1540), old 
Paarhof-type farmhouses (17%%sup th/% -18%%sup th/%  centuries);  
Liechtensteinklamm Gorge in the vicinity.

!Literature
A. Kohlbegger, Chronik von St. Johann im Pongau, 
1952.


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