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Unterach am Attersee

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Country
  
Austria

District
  
Vöcklabruck

Vehicle registration
  
VB

Area
  
26.02 km²

Population
  
1,440 (1 Apr 2009)

Area code
  
07665

State
  
Upper Austria

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Elevation
  
477 m

Local time
  
Sunday 3:32 PM

Postal code
  
4866

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Weather
  
21°C, Wind W at 11 km/h, 46% Humidity

Unterach is a village in the Austria state of Upper Austria on the southern shore of lake Attersee in the centre of the Salzkammergut region.

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Map of Gemeinde Unterach am Attersee, Austria

The name derives from the Austro-Bavarian Untr|aha ~ between|waters based on the geographical location on the shore of lake Mondsee and lake Attersee.

Coat of arms

  • In gold a blue diagonal bar, within is a silver fish, complemented by a red heart.
  • Town colours: blue-yellow-red
  • 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.

    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 counil 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
  • Historic election results.

    Commerce

  • Tourism
  • Ebewe - Austrian pharma company and biggest employer in Unterach
  • Hotel Seegasthof Stadler - Hotel and second biggest employer in Unterach
  • Town communities

  • Au/See
  • Ort am Mondsee
  • See am Mondsee
  • Au
  • Unterach
  • Mühlleiten
  • Village Centre
  • Buchenort
  • Misling
  • Stockwinkel
  • Neighbouring towns

  • Nußdorf am Attersee
  • Oberwang
  • Innerschwand
  • Mondsee
  • St. Gilgen
  • Steinbach am Attersee
  • Lakes

  • Attersee
  • Mondsee
  • Egelsee (Unterach)
  • Personalities

  • Viktor Kaplan
  • Hugo Wolf
  • Johannes Brahms
  • Gottfried Keller
  • Maria Jeritza
  • Heinz Conrads
  • Georg Danzer
  • Gusti Wolf
  • Johanna Matz
  • Elisabeth Stiepl
  • Karl Schwetter
  • Alexander Jenner
  • Franz Bauer-Teussl
  • Heinrich Schiff
  • Cardinal Christoph Schönborn
  • Gloria Excelsias
  • References

    Unterach am Attersee Wikipedia