itself to a mono-economy. The sole source of income was salt production, to which all economic activity was coordinated. In Altaussee the salt was mined. Grundlsees role in this mono-economy was mainly the supply of brewing pans with the necessary firewood, which required salt extraction forestry. In addition, the workers employed in this branch were mostly small part-time farmers who, together with their family members, produced a part of the essential products themselves. Due to the austerity and the severe climatic conditions, there were only relatively few full-time farmers in the entire region. During the Napoleonic wars, French troops marched through the Ausseerland several times between 1800 and 1809. In 1809, therefore, the Koppen Pass and the Pötschen Pass were entrenched and fortified. But fighting did not happen. In 1813 fortified the Pötschenpass again, this time with several gun positions, a powder magazine and two barracks. The expected battles for the pass failed, as Napoleon's troops were decisively defeated in October 1813 in the Battle of Nations near Leipzig. Beginnings of tourism At the beginning of the 19th century, the Salzkammergut was discovered as a summer resort. Archduke Johann of Austria met his future wife Anna Plochl at the Toplitzsee in August 1819. The nearby Bad Ischl developed into a prominent health resort and was from 1849 the imperial summer residence. Due to the presence of the nobility in the region, the Ausseerland became more and more a center of attraction for the noble society. Soon it attracted many artists and representatives of Viennese society to Grundlsee, which had become since 1850 by the abolition of the manorial system (1848) a political community. The Ausseer landscape attracted many painters. Between 1801 and 1848, Archduke Johann had his chamber painters work in the Ausseerland, among others Jakob Gauermann, Matthäus Loder, Thomas Ender and Jakob and Rudolf Alt, where a variety of landscape paintings with Grundlseer motifs was created. Another painter working in Grundlsee is Johann Matthias Ranftl, after whom the Ranftlmühle, built in 1850, is named on the Stimitzbach. The Kronprinz-Rudolf-Bahn was opened in 1877 and the Ausseerland was finally infrastructurally well-developed for tourism. In 1879 tourist steamboat traffic was started in Grundlsee with the wooden steamboat Erzherzog Johann. Among the artists and intellectuals who spent their summer vacation in Grundlsee, or settled there permanently, the industrialist and folklorist Konrad Mautner, the neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud and the