Ebensee

Ebensee is a market city in the Traunviertel area of the Austrian kingdom of Upper Austria, positioned within the Salzkammergut Mountains at the southern stop of the Traunsee. The regional capital Linz lies about ninety km to the north, nearest cities are Gmunden and Bad Ischl. The municipality also incorporates the Katastralgemeinden of Langwies, Oberlangbath, Rindbach, Kohlstatt and Roith.This is a metropolis within the district of Modling within the Austrian nation of Lower Austria. With the Traunviertel, Ebensee due to the fact that 1180 belonged to the Duchy of Styria held through the House of Babenberg from 1192, till in 1254 King Ottokar II of Bohemia subsequently allotted it to his Austrian duchy. Ebensee itself turned into first mentioned in a 1447 deed.

From 1596 on Emperor Rudolph II of Habsburg had a salt evaporation pond erected close to the agreement, furnished with brine being introduced through a 40 km lengthy pipeline from the salt mines round Hallstatt. Ebensee consequently was the primary production centre for salt in Austria. Historically, the website become chosen because of the wealthy forests, whose timber was used to boil the salt out of the brine. In 1883 the Belgian chemist Ernest Solvay established soda works of the Solvay corporation at Ebensee. Although a former commercial middle inside the large Salzkammergut region, it has these days fallen on awful fortunes with the closure of some of the larger factories.