Seekirchen am Wallersee#

Seekirchen am Wallersee, province of Salzburg, market town in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung, alt. 512 m, pop. 8,273 (pop. 6,815 1981), area 50.28 km2, summer tourist resort (51,783 overnight stays in 1992) in the south-west of Lake Wallersee, in the middle Flachgau region. - School Psychological Service and Educational Guidance of the Provincial School Board, agricultural vocational school, SOS-Kinderdorf (children´s village), day centre of the Lebenshilfe welfare organisation, young people´s home of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions, festival hall, Fantasiana fairy-tale park, public bathing facilities; construction of heating systems, building and construction industry, tin factory. - Baroque collegiate church (documented mention around 700, formerly Carolingian and Romanesque) with Gothic choir and late-Gothic crypt, reconstruction around 1670 by A. Dario, collegiate monastery used by secular priests since 1679; late-Gothic church of St. Nikolaus in Waldprechting; Seeburg Palace with circular wall and four corner towers, present form of the complex since the middle of the 18th century; local heritage museum and monastery museum; old traditional farmsteads (17th - 18th centuries) in various parts of Seekirchen.

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