Vöcklabruck - Austrian city located in the southwestern part of the Province of Upper Austria, is part of the district Voecklabruck. Located in the foothills at an altitude of 433 meters above sea level on the river of the same name. The city is an important administrative and economic center, university town. Because of its proximity to the lakes of the Salzkammergut (Attersee, Mondsee, Traunsee) Vocklabruck very focused on tourists.

Vocklabruck is first mentioned in 1134. 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 Varneburg repeatedly stayed 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, most of the residents were still Protestants, resulting in constant conflict with the new Catholic abbot.

After the Thirty Years War, the city was in ruin and misery, and was expelled from the association of sovereign cities. Only in 1718 the Emperor Charles VI was able to return Vocklabruck city status.

During World War II, from 1941 to May 1942 near the town it was a concentration camp. Work three hundred prisoners was used in the construction of roads and bridges in Vocklabruck. The city has not suffered during the war, but after its completion in Vocklabruck settled IDPs.

Attention guests deserve two medieval towers in the town square, where in 1960 were found frescoes dating from the year 1502 and written by Jorg Koldererom Tyroleans. In the center of town is the late-Gothic church of St. Ulrich, Baroque church of St. Giles, and in the south of the city stands the unusual ancient Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. In the museum operates an exposition devoted to the composer Anton Bruckner.