AUSTRIA - BAD ISCHL; SALZKAMMERGUT Zentrum, kaiserliche Kurstadt ()

DWK F&F Musik: .: Mirage ; Chris Haugen Bad Ischl is an Austrian spa town east of Salzburg. The city is the gateway to the Alpine lakes and mountains in the “Salzkammergut“. As well an Austrian health city with 13000 inhabitants at the Traun, in the Center of the “Salzkammergut“ and in the southern part of Upper Austria. Settled already in the Hallstatt period (800 BC) and important because of the Salines. Medical improovement made the saline physic Josef Götz, who since 1807 studied the effect of saline baths on diseased saline workers. In 1827/1828 Franz and Magdalena Koch built the “Posthof (Gasthof zur Post)“, this was the first hotel in the “Salzkammergut“. The heyday of Ischl was the period from 1849 to 1914 as the town becomes to the imperial summer residence of the emperor Franz Joseph I. . In 1853, Franz Joseph became engaged there to Elisabeth (Sisi) from Bavaria here in this house, which was called the “Seeauerhaus“: today it is the museum of the city. At the “Gasthof zur Post“, everyone