Bergheim

Bergheim is a municipality within the district of Salzburg-Umgebung within the nation of Salzburg in Austria. The Plainberg with its Maria Plain pilgrimage church forms the border between Bergheim and the town of Salzburg to the south. The area occupied by means of modern day-day Bergheim has been continuously inhabited due to the fact that Paleolithic instances as evidenced by way of archeological reveals on Muntigler Hill. Other finds from the Neolithic factor to uninterrupted inhabitation of the place from prehistoric times onward. In the primary century, B.C., the Celts began settling within the area.

The Celtic nation of Noricum was integrated into the Roman Empire in sixteen B.C. Two Roman manors believed thus far from this era have been excavated in close by Kerath and Kemating. In the year 488 B.C. The Romans withdrew at the orders of King Odoacer. Around the year 650 the Germanic Bavarii commenced to settle inside the Salzburg vicinity. One of the biggest burial grounds within the Flachgau district, unearthed in 1896 near the parish church, dates from this period.