Mattsee

Mattsee
View from the lake: castle and church
Mattsee
Country	Austria
State	Salzburg
District	Salzburg-Umgebung
Mayor	Matthäus Maislinger (ÖVP)
Area	24.6 km2 (9 sq mi)
Elevation	505 m  (1657 ft)
Population	3,091 (1 January 2011)[1]
- Density	126 /km² (325 /sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	SL
Postal code	5163
Area code	06217
Website	www.mattsee.at Coordinates: 47°58′00″N 13°05′00″E / 47.9666667°N 13.0833333°E / 47.9666667; 13.0833333

Mattsee is a market town at the eponymous lake in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Salzburg.

History

Mattsee in 1905

About 765 Duke Tassilo III of Bavaria established the Mattsee Benedictine Abbey, that became a part of the Diocese of Passau in 993 and was transformed into a college of canons. The Bishops of Passau had the Mattsee Castle built in the 12th century.

Under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Salzburg since 1807, the college still exists today. The abbey church, a Gothic building, has a rich Baroque equipment and a prominent 60m/197ft high steeple added in 1766. Adjacent is a museum showing paintings of Johann Michael Rottmayr, an astronomical clock and a 860 grant deed by King Louis the German.

Notable people

• Anton Diabelli, composer, born in Mattsee on September 6, 1781, died on April 8, 1858 in Vienna

• Dorothea Seyss-Inquart, daughter of Arthur Seyss-Inquart (born 7 May 1928, still alive as of 2008^[update], living in Mattsee, Upper Austria^{[citation needed]}).

Twin town

• Bühl (Germany, since 1972)

References

1. ^ Statistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahres- und Quartalsanfang, 2011-01-01.