Strasswalchen

Strasswalchen is a marketplace metropolis in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung inside the state of Salzburg in Austria. Archaeological unearths suggest a settlement of the region for the reason that Neolithic technology. From the sixth century onwards, Bavarii tribes moved into the region the call Strazzuualaha, first documented in 799, might be derived from walha, the Proto Germanic denotation for a Latinized populace that they had encountered, similar to close by Seewalchen or Wals. While the Lordship of Straßwalchen became held through the Prince-Bishops of Passau when you consider that 1243, the economically vital toll station exceeded to the Wittelsbach dukes of Bavaria.

in 1286, which sparked a protracted-time dissension among the rivaling rulers. In 1390 the Passau bishops bequeathed the bigger Lordship of Mattsee with Straßwalchen to the Archbishopric of Salzburg. Prince Archbishop Burkhard Weisbriach granted market privileges to the citizens in 1462. The Salzburg archbishopric retained Strasswalchen till its secularisation in 1803, but, the Dukes of Bavaria Electors from 1623 insisted on their claims.