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Saint Wolfgang im Salzkammergut

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Saint Wolfgang im Salzkammergut is a marketplace town in principal Austria, within the Salzkammergut region of Upper Austria, named after Saint Wolfgang of Regensburg. Saint Wolfgang erected the first church on the shore of the Wolfgangsee after he withdrew to the nearby Mondsee Abbey in 976. According to legend he threw an axe down the mountain to locate the web site and even persuaded the Devil to make a contribution to the constructing by way of promising him the primary living being ever entering the church.

However Satan turned into disillusioned because the first creature over your doorstep turned into a wolf. After Wolfgang's canonization in 1052, the church became a primary pilgrimage website, as it become first stated in an 1183 deed through Pope Lucius III. In 1481 it become furnished with the well-known Pacher polyptych. There had been numerous places for lodging around the church due to the fact medieval times, at the same time as the Weibes Rossl motel turned into now not built till 1878. During World War II, a subcamp of the Dachau awareness camp turned into placed right here.

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