Zell am See

Zell am See is the executive capital of the Zell am See District within the Austrian country of Salzburg. The city is an important traveller vacation spot referred to as Zell am See-Kaprun and is a transportation hub for the region. The region of Zell am See turned into continuously populated at the least considering that Roman times. About 740 AD, through order of Bishop Johannes I of Salzburg, priests based the village within the stem duchy of Bavaria, which became cited as Cella in Bisonzio in a 743 deed. The denotation Cella or German: Zelle refers to a monk's cell within the experience of a monastery, Bisonzio is the call of the Pinzgau area.

Zell received the rights of a market metropolis in 1357. During the German Peasants' War in 1526, the region turned into web site of heavy combating against the troops of Swabian League. The Zell am See citizens had now not participated in the uprising, despite the fact that two hundred years later, severa Protestant inhabitants were expelled from Salzburg by way of order of Prince-Archbishop Count Leopold Anton von Firmian.