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GMUNDEN , a See also:town and summer resort of See also:Austria, in Upper Austria, 40 M . S.S.W. of See also:Linz by See also:rail . Pop . (1900) 7126 . It is situated at the efflux of the See also:Traun See also:river from the See also:lake of the same name and is surrounded by high mountains, as the See also:Traunstein (5446 ft.), the Erlakogel (5150 ft.), the See also:Wilde Kogel (686o ft.) and the Millen Gebirge . It is much frequented as a See also:health and summer resort, and has a variety of lake, brine, See also:vegetable and See also:pine-See also:cone See also:baths, a hydropathic See also:establishment, inhalation See also:chambers, whey cure, &c . There are a See also:great number of excursions and points of See also:interest See also:round Gmunden, specially See also:worth mentioning being the Traun Fall, ro m . N. of Gmunden . It is also an important centre of the See also:salt See also:industry in See also:Salzkammergut . Gmunden was a town encircled with walls already in 1186 . On the 14th of See also:November 1626, See also:Pappenheim completely defeated here the See also:army of the rebellious peasants . See F . Krackowizer, Geschichte der Stadt Gmunden in Oberosterreich (Gmunden, 1898-1901, 3 vols.) . |
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