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Altenmarkt im Pongau

municipality in St. Johann/Pongau District, Salzburg, Austria

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ255811 ↗
Source-derived summary

Altenmarkt im Pongau is a small town in the Austrian state of Salzburg.

Geography

Altenmarkt is situated 65 km southeast of Salzburg.

Economy

The town is principally known for its winter tourism. It is also the location of the factory manufacturing Atomic Skis.

Altenmarkt-Zauchensee is part of the Ski Amade ski area, with Zauchensee located approximately 10 km south from the town.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Altenmarkt im Pongau” is municipality in St. Johann/Pongau District, Salzburg, Austria. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Altenmarkt, Pongau and municipality, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 62-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Altenmarkt, Pongau and municipality is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “municipality in St. Johann/Pongau District, Salzburg, Austria” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q255811. VIAF identifies the subject as 244513634. Authority coordinates are 47.367, 13.417. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Altenmarkt im Pongau”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Altenmarkt im Pongau primary sources, Altenmarkt im Pongau archive and Altenmarkt research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Altenmarkt im Pongau”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Altenmarkt im Pongau” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.