!!!Mattsee

Mattsee, province of Salzburg, market town in the district of 
Salzburg-Land, alt. 506 m, pop. 2,550 (2,089 in 1981), area 
24.60 km%%sup 2/%, summer resort situated between Lake Obertrumer 
See and Lake Mattsee in the Flachgau (one of Salzburg´s five 
main regions).- Health-resort home offering special mud-baths, former 
monastery rooms open to the public, cultural centre, camping area for 
Boy Scout and Girl Guide troops at Zellhof (part of Mattsee); shoe 
factory, boat-building company, pipe factory; today an association of 
twelve secular priests (called chapter) meets regularly in the former 
monastery, which was founded by Benedictine monks (first documented 
mentions around 770 and between 783 and 784, present building erected 
after 1276), in the 11%%sup th/%  century converted into a meeting 
place for secular priests, was integrated into the Bishopric of Passau 
in 907, twice returned to Salzburg (1390 and 1398).- Collegiate church 
(parish church), originally Gothic construction with an impressive 
transept, alterations in Baroque style in the 18%%sup th/%  century, 
Late Baroque/Early Classicist westwork (1766/67) with a central tower 
designed by W. Hagenauer (today´s mortuary), Late Gothic fresco 
of St Christopher (around 1500), richly ornamented Baroque interior 
(cycle of frescoes around1700, high altar 1733, pulpit 1710), marble 
tombstones for members of the chapter (created between the 
15%%sup th/%  and 18th centuries), Baroque provost´s house (open 
to the public), chapter house (built between the 18%%sup th/%  and 
19%%sup th/%  centuries); church of St. Lawrence built between 1777 
and 1779 according to designs by W. Hagenauer, Baroque subsidiary 
church at Zellhof, palace (in the past family seat of the Pfleger 
family of Salzburg, today´s museum of local history); farmsteads 
(Einhof) typical of the Flachgau region; Mattsee is situated near Lake 
Grabensee, Lake Grosssee, Lake Mittersee and Lake Unteregelsee. Nearby 
there is a restored Bavarian farmstead dating from the 7%%sup th/%  
century.

!Literature
F. Calliari, Festschrift zur 1200-Jahr-Feier des Stifts 
Mattsee, 1977.


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