Zell am See, Austria

Austria

Zell am See, Austria carries 53 Bunkabop connections with 5260 other places across 14 topics, spanning history, architecture, alpine sports, and religion. Founded around 740 AD as a Bavarian monastic settlement, the town saw heavy fighting during the German Peasants' War in 1526. A Gothic building retains its narthex and aisles from the medieval period, with neogothic altars added in an 1898 renovation. Evacuated Wehrmacht units occupied buildings here near the war's end before American troops arrived in 1945. Alpine skier Ulrike Maier, who competed at the 1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics for Austria, came from Zell am See district.