!!!Flachgau

Flachgau, province of Salzburg, the northern area of the province of 
Salzburg containing the provincial capital of Salzburg; encompasses 
the foothills of the Alps north of Salzburg and is made up almost 
entirely of the political district Salzburg-Land. The Flachgau forms a 
tongue-like basin shaped by the Salzach Glacier during the last Ice 
Age and boasts large forested areas and very fertile farmland with 
settlements. Tree-covered Flysch mountains (Grosse Plaike, 
Kolomannsberg, Haunsberg, Buchberg, Heuberg, Irrsberg) tower over the 
irregular hill country with small lakes (Lake Wallersee, Lake 
Trumersee), reservoirs, marshes and peat deposits. The Gaisberg and 
Untersberg mountains round off the landscape to the south. In the 
Flachgau the Einheitshaus type of farmhouse typical of the province of 
Salzburg dominates, in the north bordering on Upper Austria a 
transition to the Vierseithof farmhouse type of the Innviertel region 
can be noted. The Flachgau region receives a lot of rainfall; the 
Westbahn railway line runs through the area; as well as Salzburg and 
its suburbs, the largest settlements in the Flachgau include: 
Seekirchen, Neumarkt am Wallersee, Strasswalchen, Oberndorf and 
Lamprechtshausen.


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