Hallstatt

Hallstatt
Coat of arms
Hallstatt Location within Austria
Coordinates: 47°33′43″N 13°38′56″E / 47.562°N 13.649°E / 47.562; 13.649
Country	Austria
State	Upper Austria
District	Gmunden
Government
• Mayor	Alexander Scheutz (SPÖ)
Area [1]
• Total	59.83 km2 (23.10 sq mi)
Elevation	511 m (1,677 ft)
Population  (2018-01-01)[2]
• Total	778
• Density	13/km2 (34/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	4830
Area code	06134
Vehicle registration	GM
Website	www.hallstatt.at

Hallstatt is a village in Upper Austria. Currently, a little over 900 people live there. It is in the Salzkammergut, a mountain regionin Austria. It lies on a lake.

Because of its position, Hallstatt could only be reached by boat (or by using narrow, difficult mountain trails) for a long time. At the end of the 19th century a road was built. Despite this, even in the Neolithic people might have lived there. This is because there is a lot of natural salt there. In 1846, Johann Georg Ramsauer (a salt miner) found a cemetery from the neolithic age just above the village. A cultural epoch in Europe is named after this. It is called Hallstatt culture. Other finds in the region include a Shoe-last celt (a special kind of wedge, probably used to treat wood). A blacksmith site has also been excavatzed.

Today, the village lives mainly on tourism. There is a copy of the village in China.

• "China Unveils A Knockoff Version Of An Entire Austrian Village". 2 April 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2016.