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6 unusual facts about Gmunden


Betty Haag

In addition to her work as director of the Betty Haag Academy of Violin Studies, Haag serves as a faculty member at the Porto International Festival in Portugal and the Music Academy at Schloss Ort-Gmunden, Austria.

George V of Hanover

From exile in Gmunden, Austria, he appealed in vain for the European great powers to intervene on behalf of Hanover.

John Haswell

In 1837 at the prompting of Matthias Schönerer, who was also heavily involved in the BudweisLinzGmunden wagonway, he drew up plans for the repair shop of the Wien-Raaber railway (later Lokomotivfabrik der StEG), and in 1839 became entrusted with carrying them out, along with the mechanical engineer Kraft.

Mari Kodama

Kodama is a founding member of chamber music festivals in San Francisco, Sapporo, and Gmunden.

Prince Ernest Augustus, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale

Although he was a British peer and a prince of Great Britain and Ireland, he continued to consider himself an exiled monarch of a German realm and refused to disclaim his succession rights to Hanover, making his home in Gmunden, Upper Austria.

Prince Ernst August, the former Crown Prince of Hanover and former Duke of Cumberland, died of a stroke on his estate at Gmunden in November 1923.


Altmünster

Altmünster is a market town located about 3 kilometres south of Gmunden in Upper Austria, on the west shore of the Traunsee.

Ludwig von Flotow

Ludwig von Flotow, after 1919 known simply as Ludwig Flotow (17 November 1867 in Vienna - 6 April 1948 in Gmunden) was an Austro-Hungarian statesman.

Salzkammergut Mountains

To the north the Austrian Alpine Foreland is the boundary, between the points where the rivers Salzach and Traun spill out into the Foreland near Salzburg and Gmunden respectively.

Sankt Konrad

Konrad (or Sankt Konrad) is a town located in the Gmunden district in the state of Upper Austria in Austria.

Traunviertel

Major towns in Traunviertel include Linz (the capital of Upper Austria), Gmunden, Kirchdorf an der Krems and Steyr.


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