!!!Bad Schallerbach

Bad Schallerbach, Upper Austria, market town in the district of 
Grieskirchen, alt. 306 m, pop. 3,110, area 8.51 km%%sup 2/%, spa 
town in the Trattnachtal Valley lying between the towns of Wels and 
Grieskirchen, therapy home, thermal indoor pool (hot sulphur spring, 
37° C, treatment of rheumatism, source discovered 
incidentally in 1918 when drilling for petroleum, therapy facilities 
have existed since 1921), spa park, therapy homes, "Eurotherme" 
thermal spring, rehabilitation centres, sports facilities in the park; 
tourism (367,384 overnight stays), upholstered furniture factory, 
parish church (built 1958 on the 100%%sup th/%  anniversary of the 
apparitions of Lourdes); former parish church in Schoenau (part of Bad 
Schallerbach., first documentary mention 1142), church on the 
Magdalenaberg Mountain (late Gothic chancel, Baroque interior).

!Literature
A. Rockenschaub (ed.), Bad Schallerbach, 1991.


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