!!!Bad Hall

Bad Hall, Upper Austria, market town in the district of Steyr-Land, 
alt. 380 m, pop. 4,250, area 13.38 km%%sup 2/%, health 
resort (name stems from Celtic "hal" = salt) in the northern 
Traunviertel region, medicinal spring (brine spring with the highest 
iodine-bromine content in Central Europe, 32° C, treatment of 
vascular and respiratory diseases), therapy centre with 2 therapy 
facilities (since 1975 thermal mineral indoor pool and visitors´ 
centre with drinking hall), therapy institutes and homes, spa park 
(340,000 m%%sup 2/%, landscaped park created 1852) and spa theatre, 
Paracelsus Institute for Iodine Research (1950), health tourism 
(301,565 overnight stays) is the main source of income, first 
documentary mention 777 ("salt pan"), 1378 first mention as watering 
place, bathing activity resumed around 1820, from 1852 on the health 
resort flourished, palace (1645), numerous Jugendstil buildings 
(1895-1910); late Classicist town hall; Baroque palace Feyregg (first 
documented 1170, in the municipality of Pfarrkirchen).


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