Nussdorf am Attersee description and photos - Austria: Lake Attersee (Topic)

Nussdorf am Attersee description and photos - Austria: Lake Attersee. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The name in English is Nussdorf am Attersee.

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The small community of Nussdorf am Attersee, which has a permanent population of just over a thousand people, is located in Upper Austria, in the Voecklabruck region, at an altitude of 500 meters above sea level. It stretches for 8.2 km from north to south, and only 6.3 km from west to east.

The first settlements on the site of the present village of Nussdorf am Attersee appeared in the Neolithic period. These were primitive stilt houses. For the first time, the village of Nussdorf am Attersee was mentioned in documents from 1190. For some time the village was the property of the Traunkirchen monastery, and at the beginning of the 14th century it gained independence. After the imperial decree on religious tolerance was issued in 1781, Protestants settled in Nussdorf am Attersee. 30 Protestant families in the neighboring town of Zell am Attersee, which existed from 1789 to 1925, built their own school. This parish school was attended by most Protestant children from several cities located on Lake Attersee.

In 1857, a devastating fire destroyed all the houses in the center of the village of Nussdorf. Even the vicar's house and valuable parish archives burned down.

In the second half of the 19th century, the first tourists appeared in Nussdorf who became interested in buying summer cottages on the shore of Lake Attersee. Thus, a number of luxurious villas were built here, among which one can name, for example, Villa Lazel or Villa Ransonnet. The latter now houses the Grafengut hotel. Villa Ransennett was built in 1873 by Baron Eugene von Ransonnet, a naval officer, artist and writer. In 1860, he went down in a special bell to the reefs in the Indian Ocean. Numerous plants that he brought back from his travels now grow in the garden of Villa Ransonnet. His daughter bequeathed this house to the Diocese of Linz.

Walking through the town of Nussdorf am Attersee, one cannot miss the old mill, erected in the 17th century and restored in 1980 by a private company, and the late Gothic Church of St. Mauritius, reconstructed in 1987 -1988 years. The Gothic altar arch and the presbytery have been preserved from the previous building.

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