Description of the attraction
The small community of Nussdorf am Attersee, in which a little more than a thousand people live permanently, is located in Upper Austria, in the Voecklabruck region, at an altitude of 500 meters above sea level. From north to south it stretches for 8, 2 km, and from west to east it takes only 6, 3 km.
The first settlements on the site of the present village of Nussdorf am Attersee date back to the Neolithic period. These were primitive stilt houses. For the first time, the village of Nussdorf am Attersee was mentioned in documents from 1190. For some time the village was the property of the Traunkirchen monastery, and at the beginning of the 14th century it gained independence. After the imperial decree on religious tolerance was issued in 1781, Protestants settled in Nussdorf am Attersee. 30 Protestant families in the neighboring town of Zell am Attersee, which existed from 1789 to 1925, built their own school. Most of the Protestant children from several cities located on Lake Attersee attended this parish school.
In 1857, a devastating fire destroyed all the houses in the center of the village of Nussdorf. Even the vicar's house and valuable parish archives burned down.
In the second half of the 19th century, the first tourists appeared in Nussdorf, who became interested in buying summer cottages on the shores of Lake Attersee. Thus, a number of luxurious villas were built here, among which one can name, for example, Villa Lazel or Villa Ransonnet. The latter now houses the Grafengut hotel. Villa Ransennett was built in 1873 by Baron Eugene von Ransonnet, a naval officer, artist, and writer. In 1860, he went down in a special bell to the reefs in the Indian Ocean. Numerous plants that he brought back from his travels now grow in the garden of Villa Ransonnet. His daughter bequeathed this house to the Diocese of Linz.
Walking through the city of Nussdorf am Attersee, you cannot miss the old mill, built in the 17th century and rebuilt in 1980 by a private company, and the late Gothic church of St. Mauritius, reconstructed in 1987-1988. From the previous building, the Gothic altar arch and the presbytery have been preserved here.
