Saint Johann im Pongau

St. Johann im Pongau is a small town in the kingdom of Salzburg in Austria. It is the administrative centre of the St. Johann im Pongau District. The Salzach Valley, an historical copper mining region, had been settled as a minimum for the reason that Bronze Age. The agreement became first noted as sanctum Johannem in villa in a 1074 deed, named after John the Baptist. It became for hundreds of years a possession held by means of the Prince-Archbishops of Salzburg.

In the route of the German Peasants' War of 1525 to 26, big elements of the populace grew to become Protestant. Under the guideline of Prince-Archbishop Count Leopold Anton von Firmian in 1731, numerous inhabitants have been forced to go away the us of a, lots of them observed refuge inside the Kingdom of Prussia, wherein they settled in East Prussia. During the Austrian Anschluss to Nazi Germany, St. Johann became renamed Markt Pongau in 1939 and from 1941 was the website of the World War II Stalag XVIII C internment camp run by using the Wehrmacht militia.