Spital am Pyhrn

Spital am Pyhrn, Upper Austria, municipality in the district of Kirchdorf an der Krems, alt. 640 m, pop. 2,197, area 108.90 km², bi-seasonal tourist resort (147,452 overnight stays) on the Pyhrn Pass road, at the west foot of Haller Mauern Mountain Range (Großer Pyhrgas Mountain, alt. 2,244 m). - Wurzeralm Provincial Young People´s Home, Lindenhof Young People´s Home, museum of rock paintings in the monastery, funicular leading to Wurzeralm alpine pasture (alt. 1,427 m, nature reserve), Trattenbachfall electricity works, transformer station close to Bosruck Tunnel; door manufacturers and metal works - Former Augustinian Canons´ collegiate monastery (1418), founded as a hospital in 1190, closed in 1807; former collegiate church, now parish church (1714-1736), tall Baroque reconstruction (attributed to J. M. Prunner), frescoes (1737-1740), a masterpiece by B. Altomonte, several paintings by M. J. Schmidt, stucco work by D. A. Carlone (1724), high altar by V. Königer (1769); monastery building (1642-1700, now parish house); column dedicated to the Holy Trinity (1771) with sculptures by Königer; two-storey late-Gothic church of St. Leonhard (1439 and 1462) on the Pyhrn Pass road; lower church on top of a rock, upper church with altar pieces by M. J. Schmidt (1780); wayside shrine (1677) with late-Gothic group of figures dating from the early 16^th century. - Dr.-Vogelgesang-Klamm gorge on the Klammbach stream (longest narrow rock gorge in Upper Austria).

Literature: H. Krawarik (ed.), Dorf im Gebirge. Spital am Pyhrn 1190-1990, 1990.