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The Salzkammergut railway line (German: Salzkammergutbahn) is a standard gauge railway line in the Austrian states of Styria and Upper Austria.It runs 171.1 kilometres (106.3 mi) from a junction with the Wels–Passau railway line near Schärding to a junction with the Enns Valley Railway in Stainach.
Hallstatt (German: ⓘ) is a small town in the district of Gmunden, in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. Situated between the southwestern shore of Hallstätter See and the steep slopes of the Dachstein massif, the town lies in the Salzkammergut region, on the national road linking Salzburg and Graz .
Salzburg [a] is the fourth-largest city in Austria.In 2020, it had a population of 156,852. [7]The town occupies the site of the Roman settlement of Iuvavum.Founded as an episcopal see in 696, it became a seat of the archbishop in 798.
View of Hallstatt. 1895 map (from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon 4th ed.), showing the area between c. and , centered on. The Salzkammergut (Austrian German: [ˈsaltskamɐɡuːt], Northern German: [ˈzaltskamɐɡuːt] ⓘ; Central Austro-Bavarian: Soizkaumaguad) is a resort area in Austria, stretching from the city of Salzburg eastwards along the Alpine Foreland and the Northern Limestone Alps ...
Salzburg Hauptbahnhof (German for Salzburg main station; abbreviated Salzburg Hbf [1] and occasionally translated as Central Station [2]) is the main railway station in Salzburg, capital of the federal state of Salzburg in Austria. It is the most important station in the agglomeration of Salzburg, and a major transportation hub in western Austria.
This is a complete list of the cities and towns in Austria. There is no legal distinction between town and city in Austria; a Stadt (city) is an independent municipality that has been given the right to use that title. Below is a list of some of the largest cities by population, as well as a full listing of all cities and municipalities of Austria.
Franziskanerkirche, one of Salzburg's oldest buildings, dating from 1208 and used by the Franciscans since 1642; Getreidegasse, a busy narrow shopping street characterised by numerous high townhouses; Großes Festspielhaus, an opera house and concert hall dating from 1960 and built for the annual Salzburg Festival
Hallstätter See or Lake Hallstatt is a lake in Salzkammergut, Austria. It is named after Hallstatt , a small market town famous for its salt mining since prehistoric times and for being the starting point of the world's oldest still-working industrial pipeline, used to transport brine to Bad Ischl (since 1596) and further to Ebensee .