Mauthausen

Mauthausen is a market town in Upper Austria in the district of Perg in the Mühlviertel at the western fringe of Macheland with 4890 population and changed into till 31 December 2013, the seat of the district courtroom for the district Mauthausen. Since 1 January 2014, the competent district court docket inside the metropolis of Perg. The market is located immediately on the Danube River 15 km east of Linz at 265 m above sea stage. A. The vicinity developed at a cease of the 10th century founded by using the Babenbergern toll station and become first noted in 1192 as a Muthusin documentary.

1335 Baumgartenberg in the Urbar for the primary time marketplace rights known as later confirmed numerous times. Finds from the Neolithic length at the granite rocks over the Danube meadows testify that the municipality of Mauthausen become settled early. There are not any finds from the Roman period mentioned. At that time, Mauthausen lay without delay at the border to the Roman Empire inside a buffer region of approximately 7.5 km, immediately opposite the Roman camps, first of Albing and later of Lauriacum.