As in many Salzburg lands where the Protestant Reformation had spread, the peasants in the Krimml area were subject to Counter-Reformation measures enacted by the prince-archbishops and several Protestant families were expelled. After the Archbishopric was secularised, the former ecclesiastical estates finally passed to the Austrian Empire in 1815. From the late 19th century onwards, Alpine tourism gradually became an important economic factor. Krimml station is the western terminus of the Pinzgauer Lokalbahn narrow-gauge railway line to Zell am See. Seats in the municipal assembly ("Gemeinderat"):