Tulln

Tulln is a historic metropolis within the Austrian nation of Lower Austria, the administrative seat of Tulln District. Because of its abundance of parks and gardens, Tulln is regularly called Blumenstadt. The city is situated inside the centre of the Tulln Basin stretching to the Vienna Woods in the south, approximately forty kilometres northwest of the Austrian capital Vienna. The fundamental part of its constructed-up region is placed on the southern financial institution of the Danube river. Tulln is one of the oldest cities in Austria.

Although it became settled in pre-Roman times, it gained significance as the Roman castle of Comagena. In the very last years of Roman rule, Saint Severinus of Noricum is said to have visited the city, saving it from the barbarians. The town changed into first stated as Tullina in an 859 deed, while the region become a part of the Bavarian marcha orientalis. It gained significance as a house of the noble House of Babenberg, ruling as Austrian margraves from 976 onwards. Tulln lost its significance after the Babenbergs relocated their house to Vienna.