UNESCO world heritage - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2000 - 7 Shilling

The Salzkammergut, situated in the northern Limestone Alps, formed a "miniature of the entire Alps" in the eyes of its discoverers. Name and cultural landscape unit of this alpine and Voralpenregion in the catchment area of ​​the upper Traun owes this habitat to the salt-mining testified since the early time. In addition, Salzkammergut means not only mountains, forests, meadows and pastures but also lakes. The beauty of the lakes in this abundance of different landscape and cultural images in three federal states is often based on contrasts of the reflecting lake surface, steep rock faces and the green, blue, often almost "black" water. Originally connected only to the "Ischl country", the name spread over the whole area in the Traun area and the Attergau. A sub-area (484.6 km²) of the Salzkammergut has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage List since December 1997 as Historical Cultural Landscape "Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut". The World Heritage Committee justified its decision with the words: "The alpine region of Hallstatt - Dachstein / Salzkammergut is an exceptional example of a natural landscape of unique beauty and scientific significance, which also bears witness to the early and continuous human, economic and This cultural landscape combines nature and culture in a harmonious and mutually complementary way. "