Kals am Großglockner

Kals am Großglockner, Tirol, municipality in the district of Lienz, alt. 1,325 m, pop. 1,272, area 180.54 km², tourist centre (138,129 overnight stays mostly in the summer) situated in the Kals valley to the south of the Großglockner mountain, between the Granatspitz mountain and the Schober mountains. - Sports hostel, Kalserbach storage power station (built in 1950, 11.7 MW; power station near Kals, storage facility near St. Johann). Starting point of the first ascent of the Großglockner peak in 1853; parish church in Ködnitz built in 1439 with Classicist alterations made between 1818 and 1821 and frescoes from 1960, Romanesque filial church in Großdorf with a two-storeyed chapel and a Gothic spire; several chapels and shrines.