!!!Bad Zell

Bad Zell, Upper Austria, market town in the district of Freistadt, 
alt. 515 m, pop. 2,687, area 45.50 km%%sup 2/%, spa town and 
holiday resort in the southern Muehlviertel region, in the Kettenbach 
Valley; therapy centre (with a cold radioactive spring with a low 
content of minerals carried in solution, dedicated to St. Hedwig, 
treatment of rheumatism), Oesterreichisches Institut fuer 
Freizeitforschung (Institute for Leisure Research) in Oberdorf; health 
tourism (63,050 overnight stays), wood processing. First documentary 
mention in 1208, late Gothic parish church with frescoes (Baroque 
interior from the year 1746), pillory (1574), mansions of wealthy 
citizens, Zellhof Palace (first documented in the 13%%sup th/%  
century), Prandegg Castle (15%%sup th/%  century, today a ruin), ruins 
of Reichenstein castle and Rutenstein castle.


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