!!!St. Johann in Tirol

St. Johann in Tirol, Tirol, market town in the district of 
Kitzbuehel, alt. 659 m, pop. 7,180, 
area 59.15 km%%sup 2/%, bi-seasonal tourism (721,560 
overnight stays in 1992), economic centre and traffic junction in the 
Leukental Valley, at the foot of the Kitzbueheler Horn Mountain 
(alt. 1,996 m), situated at the confluence of the 
Fieberbrunner Ache and the Kitzbueheler Ache Rivers. - District forest 
inspectorate, district office of public works, hospital, Wintersteller 
barracks, hydrographic service, Bundesgymnasium secondary school and 
Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium secondary school, school of tourism, 
agricultural school, 2 youth homes, recreation centre, summer toboggan 
run, airfield, Harschbichl single rope railway (up to the Alpine 
pasture Angereralm and Harschbichl mountain, alt. 1,604 m); 
wood industry (chipboard works), wide range of industry and trade. - 
Copper mining in the 16%%sup th/%  and 17%%sup th/%  centuries. 
Baroque parish church (1723-1728) with twin-towered façade, 
vault paintings (1727, by S. B. Faistenberger) and altar 
paintings (by J. Zanusi); St. Anthony chapel (1669-1674), 
St. Nicholas church (former hospital church) in Weitau (1262) 
with late Gothic stained glass (2%%sup nd/%  half of the 
15%%sup th/%  century), ceiling fresco (by S. B. 
Faistenberger), murals (1745, by J. A. Moelk) and the oldest bell 
in Tirol (1262); old Einhof farmhouses (18%%sup th/%  century); 
starting point of mountaineering tours to the Wilder Kaiser Mountains.

!Literature
Marktgemeinde St. Johann in Tirol (ed.), Die 
Marktgemeinde St. Johann in Tirol, 2 vols., 1990.


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