Industrial Tourism Attractions in Austria
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The Haslach Textile Centre
Located under the roof of the historical building of a textile factory, the Textile Centre Haslach is a cooperation of 5 partners, who want to further develop the textile tradition of the Mühlviertel region. As their focuses are different, many and varied synergies arise between the poles of the museum, production, training and art.
Indigo Printing, Steinberg
It revolutionized Europe's textile industry in the 17th century, when thousands of companies were founded. Nowadays, this handcraft is only practiced by two printers in Burgenland, in a workshop where everything is old except the designs. The Koó family cooperates with artists and fashion designers to experiment with fabrics such as silk, wool and linen. And they burst with pride, when, for example, the Japanese-Austrian design partnership Rosa Mosa produced a leather shoe collection decorated with their indigo print for New York and Tokyo.
Hallstatt
Is a small village in the Salzkammergut region, famous for its salt production. As salt has long been a desired commodity used to preserve and provide flavor to food, the village has a long-standing history of wealth and prestige. The wealth accumulated from the salt industry transformed it into a glamorous baroque village. Visit Hörnerwerk cavern's subterranean salt lake and see the prehistoric man preserved in salt.
Mondsee
Is a town in the Vöcklabruck district, located on the shore of the lake Mondsee. The town is home to the historic medieval Mondsee Abbey. The cloister church was used for the site of the wedding in The Sound of Music movie. It is the home of one or more prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements that are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.
St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut
It is famous for the White Horse Inn (Hotel Weißes Rössl), the setting of the musical comedy and for its pilgrimage church with a late Gothic altar piece by Michael Pacher.
A destination spa, St. Wolfgang is also a popular skiing resort during the winter. A rack railway, the Schafbergbahn, runs up the mountain.