!!!Zell am See

Zell am See, province of Salzburg, town in the district of Zell am 
See, alt. 757 m, pop. 8,760, 
area 55.17 km%%sup 2/%, climatic health resort, bi-seasonal 
tourist centre (1,475,333 overnight stays in 1992, predominantly in 
the winter season); traffic junction on a peninsular-like fan delta on 
the western shore of Lake Zeller See, principal town of the Pinzgau 
Region; ship landing stage. - District commission, local court, labour 
market service, tax office and office of surveying, Chamber of Labour, 
Vocational Training Institute, local chamber of agriculture, hospital, 
local health and social insurance agency, social centre, national park 
administrative office of the Salzburg National Park Fund, local office 
for torrent and avalanche control, probation office, family and youth 
counselling centre, child guidance clinic, Kitzsteinhorn youth hostel, 
youth centres, airfield (air traffic control branch unit of the 
Federal Office for Civil Aviation, glider school), several secondary 
schools, e.g. Bundes-Realgymnasium (BRG), Handelsakademie (HAK), 
vocational school, school for nurses, adult education centre (VHS), 
town library, golf course, ice-rink, spa and sports centre, sporting 
grounds, pumping station of the Reinhalteverband (central control 
station), central sewage works, Prielau water works, 
Schmittenhoehebahn gondola ropeways ( Schmittenhoehe Mountain, 
1,965 m, built 1927, oldest aerial cableway in the province of 
Salzburg) and Sonnalmbahn (Sonnalm mountain, 1,380 m), monocable 
continuous ropeways, Zell am See Mountain Railway and Areitbahn 
(Areitalm mountain, 1,395 m); service sector dominant (1991, 
about 80 % of the 6,233 people employed), mainly due to tourism 
(hotel and catering industry, trade, financial centre), due to its 
functions as a central town, also personal, social and public 
services; printing industry. - Documented mention as "Bisonzio" before 
788, named Zell im Pinzgau 1287-1810, town status since 1928; town 
parish church, Romanesque pier basilica (around 1130) with early 
Gothic choir (around 1325), late Gothic west tower (mid-15%%sup th/%  
century), Gothic wall paintings (14%%sup th/% -15%%sup th/% 
 century) and neo-Gothic altars; town parish church (1964-1966); 
Protestant Resurrection church (1958); Calvary; Rosenberg Palace, 
built 1577-1580 as residence of a mine owner's family, town hall since 
1980 (with gallery); early mediaeval Landvogt or Kastner tower (town 
museum); late historicist buildings.

!Literature
E. Hoelzl, Geschichte von Zell am See, 1975; W. Thaler, 
1978. Jubilaeumsjahr in Zell am See, 1978; E. Hoelzl, 1200 Jahre Zell 
am See. Eine Heimatchronik, 1989.


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