!!!Zell am Ziller

Zell am Ziller, Tyrol, market town in the district of Schwaz, 
alt. 575 m, pop. 1,802, 
area 2.43 km%%sup 2/%, bi-seasonal tourist resort (318,336 
overnight stays in 1992), main settlement in the central Ziller Valley 
at the confluence of the Ziller river and Gerlosbach stream. - 
District court, local forest inspectorate, branch offices of the local 
health and social insurance agency and of the TIWAG (short for 
"Tiroler Wasserkraftwerke AG", the Tirolean Water Power Utility), 
federal school of tourism, recreational park for entertainment and 
other events, multi-purpose building of the  Tauernkraftwerke power 
plant; Rosenalmbahn (partly municipality of Rohrberg) and 
Gerlossteinbahn (up Gerlossteinalm, partly municipality of 
Hainzenberg) gondola ropeways; nearby, Gerlos storage power plant 
(built 1948, 65.2 MW, municipality of Gerlos); brewery, trade. - 
Developed from a monk's cell in the 8%%sup th/%  century, early 
Christian Community, documented mention from 1188 on as "Celle", first 
brewery in Tyrol, founded around 1500 (still in operation today); 
mining region in the 15%%sup th/% -19%%sup th/% centuries (miners' 
column on Gerlosstrasse road, 1832), until 1600 also gold mining. - 
Baroque parish church (documented mention 1304, central-plan building 
by A. Hueber after plans by W. Hagenauer 1772-1778), Bearing of the 
Cross fresco (around 1515) in the Gothic tower (1511), dome fresco 
(1775-1779) and high altar painting by F. A. Zeiller; neo-Gothic 
hospital chapel (1853). - Custom:  Gauderfest on 1%%sup st/%  Sunday 
in May.

!Literature
H. Moser, Chronik von Zell am Ziller, 1976; C. Haidacher, 
Zell am Ziller, 1989.


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