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Upper Austria Upper Austria (german: Oberösterreich ; bar, Obaöstareich) is one of the nine states or of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, a ...

on the southern shore of lake Attersee in the centre of the Salzkammergut region. The name derives from the

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''Untr, aha'' ~ ''between, waters'' based on the geographical location on the shore of lake Mondsee and lake Attersee.

Coat of arms

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. * Town colours:

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The arms were granted on 1980-08-25 by the government of Upper Austria based on a resolution of the Town Council of 1979-11-09.

Gallery

Image:Gustav Klimt 028.jpg, Gustav Klimt: Church in Unterach am Attersee

Politics

* Mayor Georg Baumann, ÖVP The town council consists of 19 members. The chair is taken by the mayor who has been elected directly since 1997. (Exception: E. Gnigler got appointed by the town council in 2007.) The 1 to 2 vice-chairs are elected by the town council; likewise the allocation of responsibilities is decided by the town council. The town council, as of the latest election in 2009, is constituted as follows:
ÖVP
10 mandates * SPÖ: 9 mandates Histori
election results

Town communities

* Au/See ** Ort am Mondsee ** See am Mondsee ** Au * Unterach ** Mühlleiten ** Village Centre * Buchenort ** Misling ** Stockwinkel

Neighbouring towns

Nußdorf am Attersee Nußdorf am Attersee is a municipality in the district of Vöcklabruck in the Austrian state of Upper Austria Upper Austria (german: Oberösterreich ; bar, Obaöstareich) is one of the nine states or of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Au ...

Oberwang Oberwang is a municipality in the district of Vöcklabruck in the Austrian state of Upper Austria Upper Austria (german: Oberösterreich ; bar, Obaöstareich) is one of the nine states or of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria border ...

* Innerschwand * Mondsee * St. Gilgen *

Steinbach am Attersee Steinbach am Attersee is a municipality of the Vöcklabruck district in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. It is situated in the Hausruckviertel region on the eastern banks of the Attersee (Lake Atter), part of the Salzkammergut area. History ...

Lakes

* Attersee * Mondsee *

Egelsee (Unterach) Egelsee is a lake of Upper Austria Upper Austria (german: Oberösterreich ; bar, Obaöstareich) is one of the nine states or of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as the other Aust ...

Personalities

Viktor Kaplan Viktor Kaplan (27 November 1876 – 23 August 1934) was an Austrian engineer and the inventor of the Kaplan turbine. Life Kaplan was born in Mürzzuschlag, Austria into a railroad worker's family. He graduated from high school in Vienna in 1895 ...

Hugo Wolf Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf (13 March 1860 – 22 February 1903) was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Ro ...

Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid- Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped wit ...

* Gottfried Keller * Maria Jeritza *

Heinz Conrads Heinz Conrads (December 21, 1913 – April 9, 1986) was an Austrian actor, radio and television host, and Wienerlied performer. He appeared in more than thirty films during his career including the 1947 historical ''It's Only Love''. Selected film ...

Georg Danzer Georg Franz Danzer (7 October 1946, in Vienna – 21 June 2007, in Asperhofen, Lower Austria) was an Austrian singer-songwriter. Although he is credited as one of the pioneers of Austropop (most famous are his comic songs "Jö schau" (about a str ...

Gusti Wolf Gusti Wolf (11 April 1912 – 5 May 2007) was an Austrian stage, film, and television actress. Born in Vienna, Wolf was adopted by the painter, Felix Albrecht Harta who became her foster father. Wolf made her stage debut at the Burgtheater in ...

Johanna Matz Johanna Matz (born 5 October 1932, in Vienna) is an Austrian film actress. She began as a dancer and later acted at the Burgtheater. Selected filmography * '' Maria Theresa'' (1951) * '' Season in Salzburg'' (1952) * ''The White Horse Inn'' (19 ...

Elisabeth Stiepl Elisabeth Stiepl (born 1920) is an Austrian former film and television actress.Cowie p.66 As a character actress, she appeared in more than ninety film and TV productions during her career in small or supporting parts. Selected filmography * '' D ...

Karl Schwetter Karl Schwetter (1914–2002) was an Austrian film actor and film producer, producer.Willis p.209 Selected filmography * ''Vagabonds (film), Vagabonds'' (1949) * ''Adventure in Vienna'' (1952) * ''Grandstand for General Staff (1953 film), Grandsta ...

Alexander Jenner Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...

* Franz Bauer-Teussl * Heinrich Schiff * Cardinal Christoph Schönborn * Gloria Excelsias

References

* ''Alfred Mück, Franz Pölzleithner:'' Unterach am Attersee Chronik - Eigenverlag Gemeinde Unterach 1990 * ''Knoll, Mayr, Prix:'' Die elektrische Bahn Unterach-See - Verlag Johannes Heyn 1995, * ''Erich Weidinger:'' Sagen & Märchen vom Attersee - SECESSION LXXXXVIII 1989 * ''

Gustav Klimt Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's prim ...

:'' Notizbuch Unterach am Attersee - Verlag Brandstätter 2001, * ''

Thomas Bernhard Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard (; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet who explored death, social injustice, and human misery in controversial literature that was deeply pessimistic about modern civilizati ...

:'' Die Mütze - 1966 (location), in Die Erzählungen - Suhrkamp 1979,

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