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Hallstatt, Upper Austria, is a village in the Salzkammergut, a region in Austria. It is located near the Hallstätter See (a lake). At the 2001 census, it had 946 inhabitants.
Hallstatt is known for its production of salt, dating back to prehistoric times, and gave its name to the Hallstatt culture, a culture often linked to Celtic, Proto-Celtic, and pre-Illyrian peoples in Early Iron Age Europe, c.800â450 BC. Some of the earliest archaeological evidence for the Celts was found in Hallstatt.
Hallstatt is a small village in the district of Gmunden, in the Austrian state of Upper Austria, situated on HallstätterSee. The town of Hallstatt is known for it’s saltmines and is a well known archeological dig, situated up on the mountain. So much has been learned from this dig that the period of history was named the Hallstatt Period, 1,000 -500 BC. The mountain was mined since 800-500 BC from which the oldest graves date.
Salt was a valuable resource, so the region was historically very wealthy. Today, Hallstatt is a tourist destination and the village can be toured on foot in ten minutes.
Hallstatt is a small town in the district of Gmunden, in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. Situated between the southwestern shore of Hallstätter See and the steep slopes of the Dachstein massif, the town lies in the Salzkammergut region, on the national road linking Salzburg and Graz.
Hallstatt is known for its production of salt, dating back to prehistoric times, and gave its name to the Hallstatt culture, the archaeological culture linked to Proto-Celtic and early Celtic people of the Early Iron Age in Europe, c. 800–450 BC.
Hallstatt is at the core of the Hallstatt-Dachstein/Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape declared as one of the World Heritage Sites in Austria by UNESCO in 1997. It is an area of overtourism.