Voecklabruck description and photos - Austria: Upper Austria (Topic)

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

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Vocklabruck is an Austrian city located in the southwestern part of the federal state of Upper Austria, part of the Vocklabruck district. It is located in the foothills at an altitude of 433 meters above sea level, on the river of the same name. The city is an important administrative and economic center, a university city. Due to its proximity to the Salzkammergut lakes (Attersee, Mondsee, Traunsee), Vocklabruck is very tourist-oriented.

Voecklabruck was first mentioned in 1134. The status of the city was granted in 1358, the year of the death of Duke Albrecht II. It is known that the Duke and his son Rudolph IV were great patrons of the city. Emperor Maximilian I, as well as the lords from the castle of Warneburg, repeatedly stayed in Vocklabruck.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the city was at the center of religious wars, which repeatedly led to peasant uprisings. In 1570, most of the inhabitants were still Protestants, which led to constant conflicts with the new Catholic abbot.

After the Thirty Years War, the city found itself in poverty and ruin and was excluded from the association of sovereign cities. Only in 1718, Emperor Charles VI was able to return the status of a city to Vocklabruck again.

During World War II, from 1941 to May 1942, there was a concentration camp not far from the city. The labor of three hundred prisoners was used in the construction of roads and bridges in Vocklabruck. The city was not damaged during the war, but after its end, internally displaced persons settled in Vocklabruck.

The attention of the guests of the city deserves two medieval towers on the main square of the city, where frescoes were discovered in 1960, dating from 1502 and written by the Tyrolean Jorg Kolderer. In the center of the city there is the late Gothic Church of St. Ulrich, the Baroque Church of St. Egidius, and in the south of the city there is an unusual old church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The Museum of Local Lore has an exposition dedicated to the composer Anton Brukner.

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