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Marktgemeinde Telfs

Telfs is a market town in the district of Innsbruck-Land in Tyrol (Austria). It is the seat of a district court and the center of the judicial district of Telfs.

Culture and sights

    The deanery parish church of Telfs as a three-nave cruciform basilica with two facade towers was built from 1860 to 1863. There is documentary evidence of the consecration of an upper chapel ("superior capella") by Bishop Gebhard of Trento as early as 1113, which probably refers to the cemetery chapel of the Sorrowful Mother of God in the Telfer cemetery, which was demolished in 1859 in favor of the construction of the new parish church.
    The Franciscan monastery Telfs as a monastery and the associated church were built at the beginning of the 18th century.
    The parish church of Telfs-St. Georgen was consecrated in 1975 and elevated to parish status in 1978.
    The parish church Telfs-Schlichtling was consecrated in 2002, planned by the architect Peter Thurner, and furnished with a picture cycle about the Holy Spirit by Maurizio Bonato.
    The filial and local church of Mösern is a baroque church from the 17th century.
    The Mariahilf Chapel on Birkenberg is a Baroque round-domed building built in 1648 and extended from 1692 to 1696.
    The Eyüp Sultan Mosque was built in 2007 with a minaret.

Other

    Fasnacht and local history museum in Noaflhaus
    The Alpine Peace Bell in Mösern was built in 1997.
    The Interalpen-Hotel Tyrol was the largest hotel in the Alps in terms of the number of beds until the early 2000s.