!!!Steinach am Brenner

Steinach am Brenner, Tirol, market town in the district of Innsbruck 
Land, alt. 1,048 m, pop. 3,104, area 28.05 km%%sup 2/%, 
winter sports resort (300,096 overnight stays) at the entrance of the 
Gschnitz valley into the Wipptal valley, Gschnitz Valley Bridge 
(1966/67). - District forestry office, branch office of the regional 
health and social insurance agency, therapy centre, school of rural 
domestic science, A.-Graber Museum. - Parish church with impressive 
twin-towered façade and neo-Romanesque narthex, frescoes 
(1867-71) by G. Mader, Rococo high altar (1770) and altar pieces by M. 
Knoller; originally Romanesque Ursulakirche church (redecorated in 
Baroque style) near Mauern; late-Gothic Ulrichskirche church (around 
1480) near Tienzens; near Velperquelle spring.


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