!!!Umhausen

Umhausen, Tyrol, municipality in the district of Imst, 
alt. 1,031 m, pop. 2,506, 
area 137.38 km%%sup 2/%, bi-seasonal tourist resort (224,014 
overnight stays in 1992) on the Eastern side of the  Oetz Valley, with 
the hilltop settlement of Farst (1482). - Leiersbach power station. - 
First documented mention in 1288; Gothic parish church (alterations in 
1482 and in the 17%%sup th/%  century), Nepomuk chapel added in 
1771, wall paintings (around 1330), neo-Gothic high altar (1882), 
mortuary chapel with Gothic carved figure (14%%sup th/% 
 century); in Oesten, Baroque pilgrimage church of Maria Schnee 
(1797); in Tumpen, parish church (1764/65); several Baroque chapels 
(in Niederthei, Koefels, Farst, etc.); inn with façade 
paintings and wood panelling (1684). Nearby, Stuibenfall waterfall 
(150 m). "Laerchbaumziehen" custom.


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