!!!Tarrenz

Tarrenz, Tirol, municipality in the district of Imst, alt. 836 m, 
pop. 2263 (1981: pop. 1962), area 74.64 km%%sup 2/%, situated 
near the point where Salvesental Valley joins the Gurgltal Valley, in 
the north-east of Imst. - Salvesen power station run by the Imst 
municipal public services (built in 1989, 2-2,5 MW), radioactive 
medicinal spring in Strad (Kneipp cure centre); brewery, DIY 
superstore, wood processing, summer tourism (77,833 overnight stays). 
- Tarrenz had already been settled by the time of the Hallstatt period 
and is situated near a Roman road; former seat of nail and scythe 
makers. Parish church with late Gothic core (around 1500, enlarged 
around 1730-1735, neo-Gothic alterations between 1882 and 1886); 
cemetery chapel with gravestone decorated with coat of arms (1556) and 
plague monument (1709); chapels; Neustarkenberg Castle (today 
brewery); houses with façade paintings; Altstarkenberg and 
Gebratstein castle ruins in the Salvesenklamm gorge. Strader See and 
Kropfsee lakes nearby.

!Literature
W. Schatz, Chronik von Tarrenz, 1976.


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