Saalfelden

Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer is a town within the district of Zell am See inside the Austrian kingdom of Salzburg. With approximately 16,000 inhabitants, Saalfelden is the district's biggest town and the third of the federal nation after Salzburg and Hallein. Early archaeological findings within the Saalfelden Basin date lower back to the Neolithic Era. A non-stop agreement is documented because the overdue Iron Age, whilst Celtic tribes moved into the vicinity. From the 7th century AD onwards, Bavarians settled the vicinity from the north. About 100 years later the estates of Salvet at the Saalach river had been first mentioned in a sign in by way of the Bishops of Salzburg. While they became a part of the Carolingian Empire, the lands have been integrated into the Frankish Pinzgau county.

The Saalfelden estates were obtained by Archbishop Hartwig of Salzburg about one thousand; and by using the early thirteenth century, the whole Pinzgau vicinity became a part of the prince-bishops' lands. Saalfelden became first stated as a market town inside the mid 14th century. It remained a part of the Salzburg prince-archbishopric until its secularisation in 1803.