Tamsweg District


Bezirk Tamsweg is an administrative district in the federal state of Salzburg, Austria. It is congruent with the Lungau region. The administrative centre of the district is Tamsweg.

Geography

The area of the Lungau plateau is 1,019.69 km², with a population of 21,283, and population density 21 persons per km². It is located within the Central Eastern Alps, confined by the Hohe Tauern range in the west, the Niedere Tauern in the north, and the Gurktal Alps in the south.
The region is separated from the Salzburg Pongau region by the Radstädter Tauern Pass crossing the Niedere Tauern. In the south, the Katschberg Pass road leads to the neighbouring state of Carinthia. Since 1974, the Tauern Autobahn underpasses both ranges via the Tauern Road Tunnel and the Katschberg Tunnel. In the east, the upper Mur River, originating near Muhr, flows towards Murau in Styria, accompanied by the narrow-gauge Taurach Railway and the Mur Valley Railway.
Beside some pastoral economy, Lungau largely depends on tourism.

Administrative divisions

The district is divided into 15 municipalities, three of them are market towns.

Market towns

  1. Mauterndorf
  2. Sankt Michael im Lungau
  3. Tamsweg

    Municipalities

  4. Göriach
  5. Lessach
  6. Mariapfarr
  7. Muhr
  8. Ramingstein
  9. Sankt Andrä im Lungau
  10. Sankt Margarethen im Lungau
  11. Thomatal
  12. Tweng
  13. Unternberg
  14. Weißpriach
  15. Zederhaus