Zell am See - City of Austria

Zell am See is the capital of the Zell am See district in the Austrian state of Salzburg. It is the second largest city in the Pinzgau with about 10,000 inhabitants.

The Zeller basin is a corridor between the Saalach and the Salzach. The lake is the 68 meters deep Zeller See (Lake Zeller), with the old town in the west, Thumersbach in the east, Erlberg in the Southeast and Schüttdorf in the south.

Zell am See was already populated in Roman times. In 740 AD, by order of the Archbishop Johannes (John) of Salzburg, monks founded the village "Cella in Bisonzio". Zell received the rights of a market town in 1357, and its city rights on January 24, 1928.

In Zell am See there are 3 elementary schools, one hauptschule, one special school, one vocational school, one grammar school, one commercial academy and a commercial school:

Volksschule Zell am See
Volksschule Schüttdorf
Volksschule Thumersbach
Hauptschule Zell am See
Allgemeine Sonderschule
Polytechnische Schule Zell am See
Landesberufsschule Zell am See