Vöcklabruck is in High-Austria in Préalpes Austrian. This city is a regional sub-prefecture which counts approximately 12  000 inhabitants and touches with the Innviertel-Hausruckwald area.

Monuments/Museums

• Two turns of weapons

• the church “St Ägydi”
• the church “Maria Schöndorf” (the largest invaluable object is the “beautiful Madonna”)
• the local museum
• a museum of the local traditions with a collection of lake dwellings

Sport/Leisures/Culture:

In summer, you can spend your spare time at the edge of the “Attersee”. It is one of most beautiful and of the most proper Austria Lakes, it is with 10 kilometers of Vöcklabruck. The lake is the ideal place to practice the water sports. In Vöcklabruck, you can visit the “Freizeitpark” with its sauna and its covered swimming pool and in the open air. If you want to make tennis or gulf or to ride a horse or to ride bike - all is possible. There are many restaurants, coffees and nightclubs in the surroundings. You can also pass your evening to the cinema (“Cineplex Regau”) or to the theater (“Stadtsaal Vöcklabruck”). Those which choose Vöcklabruck to spend the holidays there can also carry out superb excursions in the surroundings.

Celebrities: Many celebrities were born there or lived there of which here some names:

• Alexandra of Hanover (1999 -), princess Monegasque

Musicians:

• Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
• Wilhelm Kienzl (1857-1941)
• Oskar Czerwenka (1924-2000)

Writers:

• Franz Stelzhamer (1802-1874)
• Rudolf Jungmair (1813-1875)

Excursions in the surroundings:

• Bad Ischl, the imperial city is worth the turning

• the inn of the white horse (“Weißes Rössl”) of St Wolfgang
• who charms It castle “Seeschloß Orth” in Gmunden

See too

• Attnang-Puchheim

• Gampern

External bonds:

Official site of the city: http://www.voecklabruck.at