Bad Hall

Bad Hall is a market town in the Steyr-Land district of the Austrian state of Upper Austria. Its name, Bad Hall, means "salt bath," a reference to its long history of baths and spas. It is renowned for its saline springs, strongly impregnated with iodine and bromine. Although the springs have been known since the 8th century, Hall has been noted for them only since 1855, when the springs became the property of the government.Due to the saline springs tourism is well developed in Bad Hall. There are also some industrial companies as well as oil exploration around Bad Hall.