Bad Ischl (aut)

Bad Ischl

Bad Ischl ranks 2,511th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind East Ham, Hechingen, and Safi, Morocco. Memorable people born in Bad Ischl include Helmut Berger, Wilhelm von Mirbach, and Harald Reinl. Memorable people who died in Bad Ischl include Franz Lehár, Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, and Leo Perutz. Bad Ischl has been the birth place of many actors, and politicians and the death place of many composers, and pilots. Bad Ischl is located in Austria.

Bad Ischl is a spa town in Austria. It lies in the southern part of Upper Austria, at the river Traun in the centre of the Salzkammergut region. The town consists of the Katastralgemeinden Ahorn, Bad Ischl, Haiden, Jainzen, Kaltenbach, Lauffen, Lindau, Pfandl, Perneck, Reiterndorf and Rettenbach. It is connected to the village of Strobl by the river Ischl, which drains from the Wolfgangsee, and to the Traunsee, into which the stream empties. It is home to the Kaiservilla, summer residence of Austro-Hungarian monarchs Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth. In 2024, Bad Ischl will be one of the European Capitals of Culture – the third city in Austria after Graz (2003) and Linz (2009). Read more on Wikipedia