Ischl

Ischl lies at the meeting of the Ischl and Traun rivers in the Salzkammergut. A deed of 1262 recorded the settlement as Iselen. Archduke Albert V established a local seat of the Salt Chamber at Wildenstein Castle in 1419, and Emperor Frederick III granted Ischl market rights in 1466. A salt mine opened in 1563, followed by salt works in 1571; in the early nineteenth century the brine also helped make Ischl a fashionable spa.