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The most important historic house in the village is the recently restored patrician family home of the MĂĽller family, known locally as the Haus MĂĽller-Lombardi because the last of the family who lived there, Lina MĂĽller (died 1978) was the nineteenth child of Carl Alois MĂĽller and
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Hospental has an area, as of 2006, of 35 km (14 sq mi). Of this area, 32.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 9.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (56.6%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). In the
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