!!!Wals-Siezenheim

Wals-Siezenheim, province of Salzburg, municipality in the district of 
Salzburg-Umgebung, alt. 446 m, pop. 9,563 (1981: pop. 7,766), 
area 26.64 km%%sup 2/%, located on the River Saalach, west of the 
city of Salzburg. - Schwarzenberg barracks (built in 1951 by the 
American occupying forces as "Camp Roeder"), Soldatenkirche 
church (1953), Casino Salzburg ( Klessheim Palace), golf course (in 
the palace park), Walserberg border station with customs office and 
trans-border freight traffic administration authority, Landesgut 
Klessheim estate, day-care centre of the Lebenshilfe welfare 
organisation, training centre for former psychiatric patients, 
Klessheim Salzburg tourism schools with boarding school, 2 trade 
vocational schools, agricultural trade and vocational school, 
Siezenheim waterworks, Airport Centre (Himmelreich shopping centre). 
Approx. 65 % of the total of 4,993 employees (1991) work in the 
services sector (personal, social and public services, trade, catering 
trade, transportation), building trade. - Excavation of a Roman estate 
with mosaic decorations near Loig; Wals parish church (first 
documented mention 788, Romanesque core, Gothic west tower, rest 
re-built in 1860), late-Gothic subsidiary church on Goiser Huegel 
hill; old Einhof type farmhouses with decorated façades; 
late-Gothic parish church of Maria Geburt in Siezenheim (first 
documented mention 1281, consecrated in 1506) with frescoes 
(15%%sup th/%  and 17%%sup th/%  centuries), altar paintings by 
J. F. Pereth (1677) and late-Gothic christening font (1515);  
Klessheim Palace. - The plain east of the River is called Walser Feld.


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