Gmunden

Gmunden, a town of Upper Austria, 159 miles W. of Vienna by rail. It lies 1439 feet above sea-level, amid the grandest scenery of the Salz-kammergut, at the lowest end of the Traunsee or Lake Gmunden (8 by 2 miles), above which towers the Traunstein (5536 feet). With numerous hotels and villas, it is a favourite summer bathing-place. Salt-mines employ many of the inhabitants. Pop. 6631. See Feurstein, Der Kurort Gmunden (6th ed. Vienna, 1885).