Laakirchen

Laakirchen, Upper Austria, market town in the district of Gmunden, alt. 441 m, pop. 7,968, area 32.46 km². Industrial centre on the Traun river, north of Gmunden. Health insurance agency. School: vocational school for paper industry workers. Gmunden-Laakirchen airfield. Gymnasium, recreation centre for blue-collar workers. Gmös in Rahstorf mud-bath. Around 76 % of 4,436 employed people (1991) work in processing industries: paper industry (Laakirchen and Steyrermühl), covers for paper rolls, machine-building and structural steel engineering (e.g.: special computer-controlled machines, engines). - Parish church in late Gothic style with an interesting combination of a single-pillar hall combined with a 3- aisle hall.