!!!Zirl

Zirl, Tyrol, market town in the district of Innsbruck-Land, 
alt. 622 m, pop. 5,037, 
area 57.24 km%%sup 2/%, situated in the Inn Valley, west of 
Innsbruck; most famous Christmas crib village (Baroque cribs, turn of 
18%%sup th/% /19%%sup th/%  centuries). - Provincial hospital, 
road and highway maintenance depot, Martinsbuehel Monastery, TIWAG 
(short for "Tiroler Wasserkraftwerke AG", the Tyrolean Water Power 
Utility) branch office, Zirl transformer station; diversified economic 
structure, 1,639 people employed (1991): personal, social and public 
services (hospital), trade, building industry, commercial 
stone-crushing plant with hydraulic limestone production, soap and 
detergent factory, liquor factory with herbal distillery, recycling 
enterprises (plastics, paper); tourism (38,944 overnight stays in 
1992, mainly in summer) and wine growing. - On Martinsbuehel, 
settlements since the La Tène period, Teriolis Roman military 
post in the 4%%sup th/% /5%%sup th/%  centuries; St. Martinsberg 
Castle (documented mention 1290, enlarged to a hunting seat under 
Emperor Maximilian I around 1500), St. Martin Chapel with late 
Gothic choir (built as a one-aisled church incorporating an antique 
building, 6%%sup th/%  century); documented mention of Zirl in 799, 
largely destroyed by fire in 1908; early historicist parish church 
(1847/48), Nazarene wall and vault paintings (1860-1874); Calvary 
(erected from 1771 on), cruciform chapel, Calvary church (1803-1805); 
Fragenstein castle ruin (built before 1209, in decay since 1703). 
Nearby is the Mittenwaldbahn railway between Innsbruck and 
Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany, a complex feat of engineering 
(1910-1912); Emperor Maximilian Grotto.

!Literature
N. Prantl, Heimat Zirl, 1960; K.-H. Velano, Festschrift 
anlaesslich der Markterhebung von Zirl 1984, 1984; B. Floess, Zirl in 
Wort und Bild, 1983.


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