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

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since 1807, the college still exists today. The abbey church, a Gothic building, has a rich Baroque equipment and a prominent 60m/197 ft high steeple added in 1766. Adjacent is a museum showing paintings of Johann Michael Rottmayr, 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 ...

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

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* Dorothea Seyss-Inquart, daughter of

Arthur Seyss-Inquart Arthur Seyss-Inquart (German: Seyß-Inquart, ; 22 July 1892 16 October 1946) was an Austrian Nazi politician who served as Chancellor of Austria in 1938 for two days before the ''Anschluss''. His positions in Nazi Germany included "deputy govern ...

(born 7 May 1928, still alive , living in Mattsee,

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Twin town

* Bühl (

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, since 1972)

References

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