Attnang-Puchheim

Attnang-Puchheim is a metropolis in Austria, located in the Vocklabruck district, mendacity between the towns Vocklabruck and Schwanenstadt. Its partner city is the city of Puchheim in Bavaria, Germany. Attnang-Puchheim is centered in the Hausruckviertel, a county inside Upper Austria within the northern Austrian Prealps. Attnang-Puchheim is also known as as "Door to Salzkammergut". Attnang changed into founded by means of Bavarian settlers inside the past due 8th century. The city of Puchheim is documented the primary time in 1135, Attnang about a hundred years later in 1242.

In 1912 the community modified its name from Puchheim to Attnang-Puchheim to acknowledge this developing part of the city. In World War II, the trainstation served as connection to the Schlier V-2 rocket motor take a look at vicinity. The Attnang-Puchheim marshalling yard become bombed on April 21, 1945 at 10:fifty seven through 179 bombers of the US 15th Air Force from Foggia, Italy. The air raid destroyed/broken 120 flats and 277 houses and brought on the very best World War II death price in Austria: 708 of 5,600 citizens or 12.Nine%. The Allies captured Attnang-Puttheim on May five, 1945.