!!!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. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Altmünster|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]