!!!Bad Goisern

Bad Goisern, Upper Austria, market town in the district of Gmunden, 
alt. 500 m, pop. 6,949, area 112.47 km%%sup 2/%, health and 
winter resort in the Traun Valley in the Salzkammergut lake district, 
iodine-sulphur spring (incidentally discovered in 1874, bathing and 
drinking cures for treatment of skin and joint problems), therapeutic 
indoor pool, spa park, therapy home of the Upper Austrian social and 
health insurance agency, Protestant boarding school and adult 
education centre, Catholic nursing home, Stephaneum boarding school of 
the Brothers of the Christian Schools (LaSalle), local history museum 
with landler museum (landler = traditional dance of Alpine Austria and 
Bavaria), Konrad Deubler room, Salzkammergut lumberjack museum; 
bi-seasonal tourism (206,665 overnight stays), gravel industry, 
production of electrodes, smalls, spectacles, small-trade production 
of climbing boots (Goiserer boots), storage power plant Steeg (built 
1910, capacity 42 megawatts) operated by the Energie AG 
Oberoesterreich; Chorinsky gorge with concrete dam (1814). Protestants 
have formed a large portion of the population since the 16%%sup th/%  
century, town called "Bad" (spa) since 1955, late Gothic parish church 
(1487, enlarged 1835-1837) with late Gothic statuary and neo-Gothic 
main altarpiece by L. Kupelwieser; in St. Agatha, late Gothic 
Calvary church with Baroque high altar (Calvary from 1715); Stations 
of the Cross path between Bad Goisern and St. Agatha with late 
Baroque figures; Protestant church (1813-1816); historic mill 
("Anzenaumuehle", approximately 1600, with open-air museum).


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