!!!Bad Aussee

Bad Aussee, Styria, town in the district of Liezen, chartered 1994, 
alt. 659 m, pop. 5,058, area 82.03 km%%sup 2/%, spa: medicinal 
brine bath and Kneipp therapy (therapy after the German priest Kneipp 
combining cold water treatment, diets and outdoor exercise), lies at 
the confluence of the 3 source rivers of the River Traun in the 
Ausseer Land region, economic and cultural centre of the Styrian part 
of the Salzkammergut lake district. District Commission, District 
Court, Employment Services, health and social insurance office for the 
province of Styria, office of the Economic Chamber, rehabilitation 
centre, hospital, thermal bath, hydropathic centre, 
Bundesoberstufengymnasium secondary school, commercial school (HAK); 
main income source is tourism (218,262 overnight stays), production of 
plaster boards, machines and upholstery fabrics; forestry enterprise 
of the Oesterreichische Bundesforste AG (Austrian Federal Forests); 
pre-historic finds in the  Salzofenhoehle cave. The town began to 
flourish in the Middle Ages, when salt works started operating (late 
13%%sup th/%  century). Raised to a market town in 1295, parish church 
of St. Paul (13%%sup th/%  century) in Romanesque and late Gothic 
styles with Gothic Madonna (around 1420) and sacrament house (1523), 
hospital church (erected before 1395) with 2 Gothic altar-pieces with 
movable wings (15%%sup th/%  century) and frescoes. Important 
buildings include the Kammerhof, which was built before 1200, and, 
until 1926, housed the salt administration. Today it is a cultural 
centre comprising museum, town library and games rental centre. Houses 
from the 15%%sup th/%  century form a harmonious ensemble, birthplace 
of A. Plochl, the wife of Archduke  Johann; music festival (several 
weeks´ duration). Narcissus Festival (car corso displaying 
sculptures made from narcissus blossoms, accompanied by folk music) 
every spring during the narcissus blossom. West of Bad Aussee. 
mountains Zinkenkogel (1,830 m) and Hoher Sarstein 
(1,975 m).

!Literature
M. Pollner, Das Salz-Kammergut, 1993.


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