!!!St. Veit im Pongau

St. Veit im Pongau, province of Salzburg, market town in the 
district of St. Johann, alt. 763 m, pop. 3,021, area 
56.83 km%%sup 2/%, bi-seasonal tourist resort (87,134 overnight 
stays in 1992) situated on a terrace north of the River Salzach. - 
Provincial hospital, branch of the provincial neurological hospital of 
Salzburg, youth hostels, run-of-river power plants: St. Veit im 
Pongau (Grafenhof power plant, built in 1988, 16.5 MW) and 
Plankenau-St. Veit im Pongau (built in 1922, 11.2 MW, partially 
located in St. Johann im Pongau), Grafenhof-St. Veit power plant 
(built in 1989). - Gothic parish church with Romanesque core and 
Baroque pillared altar (mid-17%%sup th/%  century), Schernberg chapel 
with gravestones decorated with coats-of-arms (15%%sup th/% 
-18%%sup th/%  centuries), old Paarhof and Haufenhof farmsteads 
(16%%sup th/% -19%%sup th/%  centuries), Seelackenmuseum with a room 
dedicated to the Austrian author Thomas Bernhard.

!Literature
K. Lindenthaler, Heimatbuch St. Veit im Pongau, 1991.


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