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Hallstatt
municipality in Gmunden District, Upper Austria, Austria / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hallstatt is a village in Upper Austria. Currently, a little over 900 people live there. It is in the Salzkammergut, a mountain regionin Austria. It lies on a lake.
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Coordinates: 47.562°N 13.649°E / 47.562; 13.649 | |
Country | Austria |
State | Upper Austria |
District | Gmunden |
Government | |
• Mayor | Alexander Scheutz (SPÖ) |
Area | |
• Total | 59.83 km2 (23.10 sq mi) |
Elevation | 511 m (1,677 ft) |
Population (2018-01-01)[2] | |
• Total | 778 |
• Density | 13/km2 (34/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Postal code | 4830 |
Area code | 06134 |
Vehicle registration | GM |
Website | www.hallstatt.at |
Because of its position, Hallstatt could only be reached by boat (or by using narrow, difficult mountain trails) for a long time. At the end of the 19th century a road was built. Despite this, even in the Neolithic people might have lived there. This is because there is a lot of natural salt there. In 1846, Johann Georg Ramsauer (a salt miner) found a cemetery from the neolithic age just above the village. A cultural epoch in Europe is named after this. It is called Hallstatt culture. Other finds in the region include a Shoe-last celt (a special kind of wedge, probably used to treat wood). A blacksmith site has also been excavatzed.
Today, the village lives mainly on tourism. There is a copy of the village in China.