!!!Traunkirchen

Traunkirchen, Upper Austria, municipality in the district of Gmunden, 
alt. 433 m, pop. 1,742, 
area 18.37 km%%sup 2/%, summer tourist resort (77,558 
overnight stays) situated on the western shore of Lake Traunsee. - 
Buchberg provincial hospital; trade, building trade. - 1020-1573 
former Benedictine monastery, later owned by the Jesuit order 
(1622-1773); former monastery (1632) built around two courtyards (one 
with arcades); fine Baroque parish church (formerly Jesuit monastery 
church), built between 1631 and 1652, some Gothic parts, fortified 
tower (1718), rich Baroque interior: pulpit (1753) in the form of a 
boat; adjacent to it, St. Michael´s chapel with knorpelwerk 
high altar (1622) and tombstone monuments; St John´s chapel 
(documented mention in 1356, re-built in 1614); Calvary with Baroque 
crucifixion group (1696).

!Literature
F. Mittendorfer, Traunkirchen, einst Mutterpfarre des 
Salzkammergutes, 1981; H. Sperl, Traunkirchen in alten Ansichten, 
1994.


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