Bad Vigaun

Geschichte

Bad Vigaun is a municipality and spa town in the district of Hallein, in the Austrian state of Salzburg.GeographyBad Vigaun, formerly known simply as Vigaun, is located in the historic Tennengau region, about 15km south of the state capital Salzburg. The municipal area stretches from the Hagen Mountains, the Tennen Mountains and the Untersberg massif in the west to the Osterhorn Group of the Salzkammergut Mountains in the east. It comprises the cadastral communities of Rengerberg and Vigaun.The municipality has access to the Salzburg-Tyrol Railway line and the S-Bahn Salzburg network at Bad Vigaun station as well as to the Tauern Autobahn (A10) at the Hallein junction.HistoryThe settlement of Vicone was first mentioned in a 748 deed. Possibly derived from vicus, the place was already settlet in Roman times, when the area was part of the Noricum province. The local parish was documented in land register issued by Bishop Arno of Salzburg in the late 8th century. The present-day Late Gothic church building, dedicated to Saint Dionysius, was erected from 1488 to 1516.