Vöcklamarkt

Vocklamarkt is a marketplace town in Upper Austria within the district Vocklabruck in Hausruckviertel with 4950 population. The municipality is placed within the judicial district Vocklabruck. In the area of ​​the today's Vocklamarkt settled seeing that 15 v. Chr. BC the Romans. They have been in this region for 450 years. Near the late Gothic parish church testifies these days a milestone of this time. In addition, the foundations of a Roman villa had been excavated in close by Haushamerfeld close to Pfaffing.

Around seven hundred, the land took over by using the Bavarians who got here over the Redltal to Vocklamarkt. Controversial is the foundation of the call of the Vöckla River, that's surpassed down within the oldest forms as Fechelisaha or Fechilaha. It is thought that the name Vockla derives both from the private name Vechela and the word Ache for strolling water, or goes lower back to the Celtic phrase Fechil for fish. Of notable significance for the Christianization and cultural development of the region round Vöcklamarkt had been the monastery foundations inside the eight.