Laudach is a

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in the

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n state of

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. The river reaches a length of . The Laudach is a left and the main tributary of the Alm. The longer Äußere (outer) Laudach is the output of the Laudachsee in

Gmunden Gmunden () is a town in Upper Austria, in the district of Gmunden (district), Gmunden. It has 13,204 inhabitants (estimates 2016 ). Geography Gmunden covers an area of and has a median elevation of . It is situated next to the lake Traunsee on t ...

. It passes the areas of the municipalities

Sankt Konrad St. Konrad (or Sankt Konrad) is a town in the Gmunden (district), Gmunden district in the Austrian state of Upper Austria in Austria. Geography Sankt Konrad is part of the Salzkammergut resort area in Austria. It lies between the Traunsee and the ...

Gschwandt Gschwandt is a municipality in the district of Gmunden (district), Gmunden in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. Geography Gschwandt lies in a hilly area with a view on the Traunstein. About 18 percent of the municipality is forest, and 71 perce ...

Kirchham Kirchham (, literally "Churcham") is a municipality in the district of Passau in Bavaria in Germany. Kirchham has 27 ''Ortsteil A village is a human settlement or Residential community, community, larger than a hamlet (place), hamlet ...

and

Vorchdorf Vorchdorf is a market town in the district of Gmunden in Upper Austria, Austria, as well as the name of the municipal area (" Gemeinde") that the town and others occupy. As of the 2005 census, the town of Vorchdorf had a population of 7,287 inhabi ...

from the south. The smaller tributary, the Innere (inner) or Dürre Laudach, has its source in Kirchham. It is formed by two sources, the Platzbach and the Edlbach. The water stems from three hills (Wiesberg, Hacklberg and Feichtenberghills) that lay like a horseshoe around the district Hagenmühle of Kirchham. This right tributary discharges from the south into the Äußere Laudach north of Vorchdorf. The Laudach empties into the Alm about after the junction of the Äußere and Innere Laudach, several times interrupted by small

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s, in the southern area of the city of Bad Wimsbach. There are a couple of artificial ponds along the Laudach.

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