Frankenburg am Hausruck

Few towns in Upper Austria have a history as closely tied to the Counter-Reformation as Frankenburg am Hausruck. Set amid the wooded Hausruck hills of the Hausruckviertel, the market town is associated with the 1625 Frankenburg Dice Game. After a Protestant uprising, Bavarian governor Adam von Herberstorff forced captured men to throw dice in pairs; those who lost were executed. The violence helped fuel resistance that became Upper Austria’s Peasants’ War the following year. The episode is remembered in the open-air play Frankenburger Würfelspiel, a local cultural tradition. Discover other points of interest through webcams located across Upper Austria.

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