!!!St. Michael im Lungau

St. Michael im Lungau, province of Salzburg, market town in the 
district of Tamsweg, alt. 1,075 m, pop. 3,387, 
area 68.78 km%%sup 2/%, bi-seasonal tourist resort (356,726 
overnight stays in 1992) situated on the River Mur, north of 
Katschberg Pass. - Family counselling centre, autobahn maintenance 
depot of the Tauernautobahn AG; timber processing, concrete and gravel 
works, glass manufacture until 1820. - Gothic parish church with 
murals (13%%sup th/% -15%%sup th/%  century), late Gothic portal 
with Roman memorial medallion and Roman stone with 3 portrait busts; 
early medieval tombstone (the oldest Christian tombstone in the 
province of Salzburg) at the southwestern corner of the outside wall 
of the nave. St. Wolfgang's chapel (with former Gothic ossuary) 
with crypt; Gothic-Baroque filial church of St. Aegydius on the 
Speiereck mountain with a fresco of St. Christopher (around 
1400); Romanesque-Gothic filial church at St. Martin with murals 
(around 1400) and Gothic altars; St. Anna chapel, former Gothic 
ossuary, with murals; Calvary. Custom:  Samson Procession.

!Literature
Marktgemeinde. St. Michael im Lungau (ed.), 
St Michael im Lungau, 1984.


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