150 years - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1989 - 5 Shilling

In the year 909 the Traunsee was first mentioned as "Trunseo". John Andrews acquired a privilege, dated 16 October 1837, for the operation of steamboat shipping on the Upper Austrian lakes. On May 15, 1839, named after the mother of the later Emperor Franz Joseph I, "Sophie", paddle steamer was put into service and frequented regularly between Ebensee and Gmunden. It was built of wood. The Traunsee shipping went after the death of Andrew in succession to Joseph Ruston. On July 28, 1858, the built by him "Elisabeth", the first paddle steamer with steel hull on the Traunsee, ran at Gmunden from the stack. Another key figure of the Traunsee navigation was the master shoemaker Rudolf Ippisch. He set in contrast to the now obsolete steam drive on the new possibility of electric propulsion for ships and acquired the license of a shipping company. Together with several other partners he founded the "Traunsee Motorboat Company" and bought the two e-boats "Traunstein" and Glückauf. "This was followed by the big e-boats" Karbach "and" Sonnstein. "In 1918 Ippisch acquired steamboat shipping on the Traunsee by John Ruston II. Subsequently, the Traunsee shipping went to the Gmundner shipping entrepreneur Karl Eder.