The vöcklabruck - Austria city located in the southwestern part of the state of Upper Austria, is a member of the district of vöcklabruck. Located in the foothills at a height of 433 feet above sea level, on the same river. The city is an important administrative and economic centre, University town. Due to its proximity to the lakes of the Salzkammergut (Attersee, Mondsee, Traunsee), vöcklabruck very focused on tourists.

The vöcklabruck is first mentioned in 1134. The city status was granted in 1358, the year of the death of Duke Albrecht II. It is known that the Duke and his son Rudolf IV were great patrons of the city. Emperor Maximilian I and the lords of the castle Werneburg repeatedly stopped in Vocklabruck.

In the 16th and 17th centuries the city was the center of religious wars that have repeatedly led to peasant uprisings. In 1570, the majority of the inhabitants were Protestants, which led to constant conflict with the new Catholic Abbot.

After the Thirty years war the city was in poverty and devastation and was excluded from Association of sovereign cities. Only in 1718 the Emperor Charles VI was again able to return to Vöcklabruck city status.

During the Second world war from 1941 to may 1942 near the town there was a concentration camp. The labor of three hundred prisoners were used in the construction of roads and bridges in Vocklabruck. The city suffered during the war, but after its completion in Vocklabruck settled IDPs.

Attention guests deserve two medieval towers in the main square of the city, where in 1960 he was discovered frescoes Dating from the year 1502 and written by tirolian jörg Calderera. In the centre of the town stands the Gothic Church of St. Ulrich, the Baroque Church of SV. Giles, and to the South of the quaint, old town stands the Church of the Dormition of the virgin Mary. In the local history Museum has an exhibition dedicated to the composer Anton Bruckner.