Tamsweg

Infobox Ort in Österreich
Art = Marktgemeinde
Name = Tamsweg
Wappen = Wappen_at tamsweg.pnglat_deg = 47 | lat_min = 07 | lat_sec = 00
lon_deg = 13 | lon_min = 48 | lon_sec = 00
Bundesland = Salzburg
Bezirk = Tamsweg
Höhe = 1022
Fläche = 117.36
Einwohner = 5830
Stand = 2005-12-31
PLZ = 5580
Vorwahl = 06474
Kfz = TA
Gemeindekennziffer = 50 510
NUTS = AT321
Straße = Marktplatz 134
Website = [http://www.tamsweg.at www.tamsweg.at]
Bürgermeister = Alois Lankmayer
Bürgermeistertitel =
Partei = ÖVP
Gemeinderatanzahl = 25
Gemeinderat = 15 ÖVP, 8 SPÖ, 2 FPÖ
Wahljahr = 2004
image_photo = Tamsweg view.jpg
Bildbeschreibung1 = Blick auf Tamsweg von St. Leonhard aus

Tamsweg is a market town in the Austrian state of Salzburg near the border with Styria. It is the administrative centre of the eponymous district ("Bezirk") and the largest town of the Lungau region. The municipality consists of the Katastralgemeinden "Haiden", "Keusching", "Lasaberg", "Mörtelsdorf", "Sauerfeld", "Seetal", "Tamsweg" and "Wölting".

Tamsweg is located in the Schladminger Tauern mountain range of the Central Eastern Alps in the valley of the upper Mura river, the driest basin in Austria.

First mentioned as "Taemswich" in a document about 1160, the parish church, once a filial church of Mariapfarr, was acquired by the Archbishop Eberhard II of Salzburg in 1246. The Archbishops had the Saint Leonard pilgrimage church erected about 1433, which in 1490 was the site of violent fights between the armed forces of Emperor Frederick III and the troops of his rival Matthias Corvinus of Hungary.

Tamsweg is notable for its quirky annual processions of a Samson figure.

Politics

The municipal council consists of 25 seats and as of 2003 elections is composed of ÖVP: 15, SPÖ: 8 and FPÖ: 2. The mayor of the town is Alois Lankmayer (ÖVP), vice-mayors are Klaus Repetschnigg (SPÖ) and Richard Rainer (ÖVP).

Transportation

Tamsweg lies at the junction of the Bundesstraßen (federal highways) B95 "Turracher Straße" from Mauterndorf to Predlitz-Turrach in Styria and the B96 "Murtal Straße" from Sankt Michael im Lungau and the A 10 Tauern Autobahn (European route E55) to Murau.

It can also be reached by the terminal station of the "Murtalbahn" narrow gauge railway to the "Südbahn" at Unzmarkt-Frauenburg.

Twin town

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