Sankt Johann im Pongau

Sankt Johann im Pongau, province of Salzburg, market town in the district of St  Johann, alt. 615 m, pop. 8,855, area 78.00 km², most important market town in the Pongau area, commercial centre, tourism (407,227 overnight stays in 1992) in the middle of the Salzachtal Valley. -District commission, district gendarmerie, Chamber of Agriculture, fiscal authority, health agency and surveying agency, economic chamber, forestry and forestry technology enterprise of the Österreichische Bundesforste AG (Austrian Federal Forests), Krobatin barracks, probation office, family counselling, Hilfswerk relief organisation, Bundesgymnasium secondary school and Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium secondary school, commercial academy, vocational school, advanced-level commercial school (private), ballet school, cultural and congress centre, district heating plant, St. Johann run-of-river power plant (built in 1990, 16.5 MW), Arthurwerk power plant (built in 1918, 5.7 MW), Urreiting power plant (built in 1985, 16.8 MW) and Plankenau power plant (built in 1922, 11.2 MW, partly owned by the municipality of St. Veit im Pongau), Wagrain-St. Johann storage power plant (built in 1987, 16.4 MW); Alpendorf cab cable railway; various companies with 3,520 employees (1991): services predominant (about 69 % of all employed persons, mainly personal, social and public services, trade, tourism), wood and textile industry. - First documented mention in 930; neo-Gothic three-nave deanery church (built after a fire in 1855) with 2 towers, most important historicist building in the Province of Salzburg, murals (1898), altars (1900), St. Anna's chapel (formerly late Gothic ossuary) with late Gothic wood carvings (around 1530-1540), old Paarhof-type farmhouses (17^th -18^th  centuries); Liechtensteinklamm Gorge in the vicinity.

Literature: A. Kohlbegger, Chronik von St. Johann im Pongau, 1952.