Frankenburg am Hausruck: Frankenburg - Freinersteig

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.

Formed around the Danube and Enns corridors, Upper Austria developed into one of Austria’s nine federal states. Linz, its capital on the Danube, combines a major industrial tradition with cultural institutions including the Ars Electronica Center. North of the river, the Mühlviertel rolls towards the Czech border; southward, the terrain rises into the Alpine foothills and the lake country of the Salzkammergut. Hallstatt, beside Hallstätter See, is among the region’s best-known historic settlements and lends its name to the Hallstatt period of early Iron Age Europe. Browse additional webcams from the surrounding area to extend your view of Upper Austria.

Austria stretches from the Bohemian Massif along its northern edge to the Carnic Alps on the Italian border, encompassing high Alpine ranges and the Danube lowlands. The Danube links cities including Linz and Vienna, while the Grossglockner, at 3,798 metres, is the country’s highest mountain. Vienna developed for centuries as the seat of the Habsburg court, leaving imperial architecture around the Hofburg and Schönbrunn Palace. Salzburg is closely associated with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was born there in 1756. Alpine Tyrol, wine-growing areas east of Vienna and the lakes of Salzkammergut add markedly different regional identities. Browse other webcams across Austria to place this setting in a wider geographic context.