!!!Altaussee

Altaussee, Styria, municipality in the district of Liezen, alt. 
719 m, pop. 1,888, area 92.57 km%%sup 2/%, health resort 
(brine baths) and biseasonal tourist town (135,725 overnight stays) on 
Lake Altausseer See (Styrian Salzkammergut region); beginning of 
"Salzkammergut Panorama road" onto Loser mountain (1,838 m). - 
Health resort facilities, art pavilion; salt mining, timber 
processing, chemical plant. Salt mine in Sandling open to visitors; 
originally the seat of the provincial salt works. - Late Gothic church 
with altarpiece by L. Kupelwieser (1860) and late Gothic tabernacle 
(1520). - near Altaussee Trattenbach waterfall.

!Further reading
A. Auerboeck, Die Wandlungen im Ausseer Land in 
sozialgeographischer Sicht, doctoral thesis, Graz 1980.


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