Großgmain

Großgmain, Salzburg, municipality in the district of Salzburg-Land, alt. 540 m, pop. 2,100, area 22.82 km², summer holiday resort (126,151 overnight stays) at the western foot of the Untersberg mountain, near the city of Salzburg, on the border to Germany. - Customs office, training department of the Salzburg rural police headquarters, convalescent home for heart-disease patients (of the salaried employees´ pension insurance agency), sanatorium, young people´s home. Service sector predominant (particularly social services), also sawmill and carpentry.- Originally Late Gothic parish church, Baroque alterations in 1731, with imitation-stone Madonna (14^th century) and Gothic panel paintings (1499) by the "Master of Großgmain"; Plainburg Castle ruin (first documented in 1140, called "Salzbüchsl", "little salt box"); typical old Salzburg farmhouses (Einhof, 17^th -19^th centuries). Salzburg open-air museum (typical farmhouses, flour mills, etc., more than 50 houses and annexed buildings from 16^th -19^th with household equipment); Untersberg nature preserve, Wolfschwang game preserve.