!!!Tulfes

Tulfes, Tirol, municipality in the district of Innsbruck Land, alt. 
923 m, pop.1,131, area 27.73 km%%sup 2/%, bi-seasonal 
tourist resort by the Mittelgebirge mountain range to the south of the 
River Inn, at the foot of the Glungezer mountain (2,677 m), close 
to the town of Hall and to the northern portal of the Inntal tunnel. 
Tulfes has a village hall, late Gothic parish church (late 
15%%sup th/%  century) with Baroque tower, fresco of St 
Christopher (around 1600), Baroque high altar (documented mention in 
1724) and Tirol´s oldest crib (documented mention in 1608); 
Borgias chapel (1677) in Volderwald and some other Baroque and Rococo 
chapels; houses with richly decorated and often painted gables 
(Bundwerk gables) and frescoes.

!Literature
R. Schober and O. Zeisler, Chronik von Tulfes, 1976; J. 
Einkemmer, Tulfes Wandlungen einer Agrargemeinde im staedtischen 
Umland, master´s thesis, Innsbruck 1990.


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