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Altaussee is a municipality in the Styrian Salzkammergut in Austria. The municipality is located in the district of Liezen (judicial district Liezen) and covers with 92.57 km² large parts of the Ausseerland and the Tote Gebirge. The village at the foot of the Loser is particularly known as a health resort and is located directly on Lake Altaussee.
The settlement history of Altaussee goes back to the time around 200 to 400 AD, with salt mining playing a major role in the development of the town. After the end of the Roman period, Slavs settled in Ausseerland, who were gradually assimilated by Bavarian settlers from the 8th century onwards. In the Middle Ages, the municipal area was first part of the sovereign Grauscharn-Pürgg dominion, then of the Pflindsberg dominion.
In the course of the 19th century, tourism in the form of summer resorts appeared and subsequently replaced mining as the most important economic factor. During the National Socialist era, the village was incorporated into the administrative unit of Upper Danube (Upper Austria), and in 1948 it returned to Styria. From 1943 to 1945 there was an art depot in the Altaussee salt mine for Austrian and German art objects and Nazi looted art from all over Europe.
Today, Altaussee is one of the communities with the highest number of overnight stays in the district of Liezen. The Altaussee salt mine is the largest salt mining site in Austria.
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