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Small historic towns
We offer you your welcome
You will still find here what many of us have already lost: more time for a chat, more sensitivity for the little things in life and more pleasure in enjoying some of the joys that life gives to us.
15 Small Historic Towns hidden all over Austria like special gems allow you to participate in history and ambiance, pleasures of the table and very special hospitality, far from all hectic rush and the noise of the city.
Feldkirch
Feldkirch
Jesters, Fine Wines and the Magic of History
The first settlements were established in the Bronze Age; the German name »Feldkirch« was for the first time mentioned in an inventory of possessions of 842: »Ecclesia sancti Petri ad Campos id est Feldkircha – St. Peter bei den Feldern church, that’s Feldkirch«.
Radstadt
Radstadt
A Fine Old Town in the Mountains
»Rastat« was first mentioned in documents in 1074. Due to its strategically important location on the old Roman road from Aquileia over the Radstadt Tauern to Juvavum (Salzburg), Radstadt received town rights under Archbishop Rudolf von Hohenegg in 1289.
Schärding
Schärding
Town of the Guilds
»Scardigna« was first mentioned in documents in 804; in the course of the 9th and 10th centuries, Schärding became the centre of the county of Vornbach-Neuburg. The Counts of Andech followed in 1160 and the Bavarian Wittelsbachs in 1248.
Hallein
Hallein
Lebendige Kleinstadt mit Geschichte und Lebensfreude
Der Ort ist erstmals 1198 urkundlich nachweisbar, der Salzabbau bereits 1191. Die Stadterhebung erfolgte zwischen 1218 und 1232. Bekannt ist Hallein vor allem durch die Salzgewinnung und die historischen Funde aus der Zeit der Kelten.
Die alten Salinenhallen und das Salzbergwerk erinnern noch heute an eine Zeit, in der Salz nicht nur lebenswichtig war, sondern vor allem auch Geld und Macht bedeutete.
