Mattsee is a

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at the eponymous lake in the district of

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in the

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n state of

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History

About 765 Duke

Tassilo III of Bavaria Tassilo III ( 741 – c. 796) was the duke of Bavaria from 748 to 788, the last of the house of the Agilolfings. The Son of Duke Odilo of Bavaria and Hitrud, the Daughter of Charles Martell. Tassilo, then still a child, began his rule as a Frankis ...

established the Mattsee

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Abbey, which became a part of the

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of canons. The Bishops of Passau had the Mattsee Castle built in the 12th century. Under the jurisdiction of the

Archdiocese of Salzburg The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg ( la, Archidioecesis Salisburgensis) is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Austria. The archdiocese is one of two Austrian archdioceses, serving alongside the Archdiocese of ...

since 1807, the college still exists today. The abbey church, a

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building, has a rich

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equipment and a prominent 60m/197 ft high steeple added in 1766. Adjacent is a museum showing paintings of

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, an

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and an 860 grant deed by King

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Notable people

Anton Diabelli Anton (or Antonio) Diabelli (5 September 17818 April 1858) was an Austrian music publisher, editor and composer. Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the composer of the waltz on which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote ...

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, born in Mattsee on September 6, 1781, died on April 8, 1858 in Vienna *

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, daughter of Arthur Seyss-Inquart (born 7 May 1928, still alive , living in Mattsee, Upper Austria ).

Twin town

* Bühl ( Germany, since 1972)

References

Cities and towns in Salzburg-Umgebung District {{Salzburg-geo-stub