Gmunden

Gmunden lies beside Lake Traunsee, where the Traun flows north from the mountains of the Salzkammergut. A fortified settlement stood here by 1186, and Gmunden gained town status in 1278. The town was associated with the salt industry of the surrounding region. During the Upper Austrian Peasants' War, General Pappenheim defeated a rebel army at Gmunden on 14 November 1626; the dead were buried at nearby Pinsdorf. In the seventeenth century the town also supplied ships to Austria.