!!!Wörgl

Woergl, Tirol, town in the district of Kufstein, alt. 513 m, pop. 
10,054 (pop. 1981: 8,610), area 19.68 km%%sup 2/%, railway 
junction, school and service centre situated at the mouth of the 
Brixental valley within the Inn valley. - District forest inspection, 
branch office of the regional health and insurance agency, forestry 
administration, probation office, regional office of the Caritas 
Catholic welfare organisation, family and social counselling centre, 
day centre of the Lebenshilfe charity (engaged in life counselling), 
psychological school service, therapeutical centre for handicapped 
children, meeting centre of the Salzburg Archdiocese, Islamic cultural 
centre, Bundesrealgymnasium secondary school, commercial academy, 
commercial school, vocational school of trade and commerce, adult 
education centre, area commission for torrent and avalanche control; 
Woergl-Muellnertal, Einoeden (constructed in 1901) and Leukental 
(constructed in 1913) power stations; 6,349 persons in gainful 
employment (1992), of whom 69% work in the service sector (mainly in 
trade, large warehouse of a trading chain, transport), chipboard 
production, production of knitwear, construction of vehicles, tourism 
(138,020 overnight stays in 1992). - Remains of a Roman villa rustica 
(2%%sup nd/%  century A.D.); first documented mention 1120, granted 
the status of town in 1951; parish church (1740) repeatedly altered in 
the 19%%sup th/%  and 20%%sup th/%  century. In front of the church, 
memorial for dead soldiers who died in  Tyrol's Fight for Freedom in 
1809; museum of local history and culture; ruins of Werberg castle.

!Literature
H. Federer (ed.), Woergler Heimatschriften, 5 vols., 
1948-1957; P. Weitlaner, Stadt Woergl, Festschrift zur 
Stadterhebungsfeier, 1951; S. Mitterer et al., Woergl - 25 Jahre 
Stadt, 1976; Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch, vol. V, part 1, 
Die Staedte Tirols, 1980; J. Zangerl, Woergl, ein Heimatbuch, 1998.


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