!!!Altmünster

Altmuenster, Upper Austria, market town in the district of Gmunden, 
alt. 442 m, pop. 9,067, area 79.01 km%%sup 2/%, bathing and 
health resort on the western shore of Lake Traunsee, ship landing 
stage. - Hospital, SOS-Kinderdorf (orphaned childrens' village), 
leisure centre, vocational hotel and catering school, vocational 
school and specialised school for agriculture and forestry, federal 
boarding school (Traunsee Palace), "Kulturtage" cultural festival; 
tourism (142,585 overnight stays), timber processing, metal 
processing, machine manufacturing. - Oldest settlement on the western 
shore of Lake Traunsee; late Gothic hall church (1470-1480; called 
"Muenster" before 1600; high altarpiece by J. Sandrart, 1636) with 
altar sculpture in Allerheiligenkapelle (All Saints' Chapel, 1518), 
tomb of Count A.  Herberstorff; Baroque figures in parish church by 
J. G. Schwanthaler (18th century); Calvary church (1844-1846); 
Ebenzweier Palace (17th century, renovated 1842); Viechtauer 
Heimathaus (museum of local culture). - 6 km from Altmuenster, 
Hoehenwildpark Hochkreut (mountain game park); ski area at the foot of 
Hochlecken mountain.

!Further reading
E. Moser, Altmuenster. 25 Jahre Marktgemeinde, 1977.


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