Dreimärktestrasse
The Dreimärktestrasse (also Dreimärkter Strasse or Dreimärkter-Eisenstrasse ) connects the places Gresten , Purgstall an der Erlauf and Scheibbs with the Erzberg . The road was built in the 16th century and developed into an important trade route with the rise of ore processing.
Since the Peutenburger Felsen had to be bypassed between Gaming and Scheibbs, the original traffic route led over the Buchberg through Reinsberg and on to Scheibbs and Purgstall. It was only with the invention of gunpowder and the blasting of the rock in Peutenburg around 1570 that a shorter road link, called Dreimärktestrasse, could be built. The old connection lost its importance. On the one hand pig iron and proviante iron were brought in from the Erzberg via Dreimärktestrasse, on the other hand the area around the Erzberg was supplied with products for daily life, mainly food and clothing.
Today the Erlauftal Straße covers this traffic connection.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dreimärktestrasse Gresten and the trade in iron and provisions on gresten.gv.at
- ↑ Connection to Eisenstrasse on eisenstrasse.info
- ↑ Salt & Provisions from Gresten on gresten-land.gv.at