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Stuhlfelden is a municipality in the Oberpinzgau region of the district Zell am See (Pinzgau), Salzburger Land, Austria. It belongs to the Hohe Tauern National Park. The municipality is located in the Salzach Valley, about 25 kilometers from Zell am See. The relatively small municipal area extends northward into the Kitzbühel Alps to the border with Tyrol in the northwest; in the south, only the northern slopes of the Granatspitzgrat foothills belong to the municipal area.

Culture and sights

In Stuhlfelden:

    Schloss Lichtenau (Stuhlfelden 23): built in the first decade of the 16th century; with a square ground plan and five graceful corner towers; today houses the General Special School; the castle is located directly in the village
    Maria Himmelfahrt Parish Church (Maria am Stein) and cemetery (Stuhlfelden 41): first documented in 1140, built in Romanesque style, but renovated and expanded in the Gothic period, 58 m high pointed helmet tower; furnishings worth seeing, Romanesque round-arched portal - church and cemetery are listed monuments
    Rectory (Stuhlfelden 18): Listed vicarage
    Schwaigergut (Schwaigerlehen/Berngarten) (Stuhlfelden 14): Listed farmhouse, Pinzgauer multi-story one-story farmhouse of the 16th century in block construction with Gangln, inside preserved Rauchkuchl, over 500 years old
    Geigerhaus (Stuhlfelden 25 next to Lichtenau Castle ??): wooden Pinzgauer Einhof also over 500 years old, no longer run as a farm.
    Quehenberger Youth Center, former Weyergut House (Stuhlfelden 15): Listed former house Weyergut, farm yard.
    Emperor Franz Monument: originally stood at Kreuzbichl on the old Pass Thurn road, it commemorates Emperor Franz I, who initiated the regulation of the Salzach in the Upper Pinzgau in the 1830s - at Pass Thurn he is said to have made the decision in view of the marshy valley.
    Waldkapelle Stuhlfelden above the village: votive chapel from 1833, listed as a historical monument.

In the surrounding villages of the municipality:

    Labach Castle: in Wilhelmsdorf, first mentioned in a document in 1323 (also Lambach, Lapach)
    Saueck Chapel in Bam

In the surrounding area:

    Hohe Tauern National Park: Stuhlfelden is located at the National Park, but does not belong directly to the National Park municipalities, as its municipal area ends somewhat north of the NP boundaries.