History of the city of Perg

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Perg is an Upper Austrian town in the Lower Mühlviertel , whose development closely related to the history of the Mach country , the Mühlviertel and the State of Upper Austria is connected.

The historical information regarding Perg and the surrounding area has already been extensively processed and made available to the public by the Perg Heimatverein in the Heimathaus-Stadtmuseum . In numerous publications, commemorative publications, newspaper articles, the knowledge gathered there is used as well as in the following chronology, which starts out from prehistoric times and antiquity through the Middle Ages to modern times. The chronology is preceded by references to individual sub-aspects that have been presented in more detail or that have been created for their own main articles.

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Primeval times, ancient times

Illyricum - The Lower Danube Countries in Roman times: The Danube (Danuvius), the mouth of the Enns (Anisus) and Lorch (Lauriacum) in the Roman province of Noricum can be seen in the upper left corner

In the village of Weinzierl , an Ice Age hunting station from the late Paleolithic (around 30,000 years ago, Aurignacia ) was moored in the 1990s . The presence of people in the Neolithic is proven by various finds of stone axes and their fragments from the time between 5000 and 1500 BC in the villages of Auhof, Dörfl , Lanzenberg , Lehenbrunn , Pergkirchen , Tobra and Weinzierl . The discovery of residential pits and a pottery furnace from the Hallstatt period (750 to 450 BC) on the local mountain of the Klammbauernhof in the village of Auhof is significant. A few centuries later, around 300 BC, Celtic Boier came from the north and settled here. They were pushed to the Danube by the Germanic Marcomanni from Bohemia around the year 9 AD .

During Roman times (from around 15 BC) the area around Perg was located north of the northern border of the Noricum province on the Limes of the Roman Empire, which was then formed in this area by the Danube (Danuvius) , within a 7.5 km wide buffer zone between Romans and barbarians . The small Roman fort Adjuvense ( Wallsee ), the Roman military camp, initially the Albing legionary camp near St. Pantaleon (175 AD), a little later (190 AD) Lauriacum ( Enns / Lorch ) and the mouth of the Enns into the Danube (Anisus) were located in Visibility (see also map Illyricum - The Lower Danube Countries in Roman times ). The eastern Mühlviertel almost became part of the Roman Empire at the end of the 2nd century AD. Emperor Mark Aurel wanted to secure the border by establishing the province of Markomannia north of the Danube . But his son Commodus made peace with the Marcomanni and decided not to expand the territory. The Romans finally had to give up the camps and forts in the Alpine region. The only finds from Roman times in the municipality are a large bronze from the emperor Commodus (2nd century AD, found between Naarn and Perg ) and three coins (found in 1992 during road construction in the village of Pasching). There are no traces of settlement from this time in the area of ​​the municipality of Perg.

Middle Ages and Modern Times

6. to. 8th century

Avarmark under Emperor Charlemagne
Settlement by Slavs and Bavaria

After the Migration Period, the area around Perg was in the border area with the Avars , who repeatedly undertook raids to the west. In the plains north of the Danube, Bavarians from Traungau settled around the year 600 and Slavs around 100 years later . Both peoples left traces in the names of places and houses. Names that have been used to this day such as Tobra (= oak forest), Preschnitzer (breza = birch), also Preschmitzer, are evidence of Slavic names, while so-called real -ing names are based on a Bavarian personal name (e.g. Pasching von Pasko, Karlingberg von Karl). Place names and house names ending in -hofen are also of Bavarian origin (e.g. Aisthofen). Finds of grave goods such as a cross brooch made of bronze or brooches with depictions of saints from the burial ground discovered near Auhof from the 7th and 8th centuries AD prove the transition from paganism to Christianity that took place there at this time . King Charlemagne waged war against the Avars from 791 to 796 and founded the first or Carolingian Ostmark ( Avarsmark ) as a bulwark against the Avar invasions , which extended north of the Danube to the Great Mill, while it was open to the east. As far as it was not yet settled, the land belonged to the future emperor, who lent it to nobles who had rendered faithful service to him, as well as to churches and monasteries. In the area of ​​the municipality of Perg, the establishment of manor farms by the high nobility in Pergkirchen and Aisthofen can be assumed from this colonization, while better-off vassals and free farmers established seats and farms in the surrounding area (for example Lanzenberg, Hainbuchen, Klambauer, Heindelbauer, Aubauer, Aigner ).

9th to 12th centuries

Margraves and guardians, the lords of Perg and Machland, founding a parish in Pergkirchen
Grave slab from the time of the Lords of Perg
until 976 the Austrian heartland belonged to the Duchy of Bavaria
Margraviate Ostarrichi from 976, Nardina
Coat of arms of the Lords of Perg

On January 18, 853, Grenzgraf Wilhelm I ( Margrave of the Awarenmark , Marcha orientalis ) donated his territory between the rivers Aist and Naarn to the monastery of Sankt Emmeram in Regensburg . The manor in the village of Aisthofen in the area of ​​the cadastral community Weinzierl was the center and administrative seat of the so-called Regensburger Luß , the part of the Riedmark located between Aist and Naarn . The western part of the Perger municipality with the villages of Perg, Zeitling, Lanzenberg, Weinzierl and Aisthofen also belonged to this area. As a religious center that served Carolingian church to Saint Michael in the village of Naarn . Around 900 the advancing Magyars were defeated by Margrave Liutpold in a cavalry battle on the plain between Perg, Naarn and Mauthausen .

A few years later, in 907, Margrave Luitpold was killed in the fight against the Magyars near Pressburg and the Hungarians advanced as far as the Traun River. The Machland and the Riedmark came temporarily under the sovereignty of the Hungarians. The local population withdrew to the partly deserted areas of the northern forest. From that time, the so-called originate earth stables , such as the Erdstall Ratgöbluckn in Perg . Only the victory of King Otto I on the Lechfeld near Augsburg in 955 permanently banished the Hungarian threat.

In the 960s, Leopold I was entrusted with pacifying the Mark on the Danube and in 976 was appointed Margrave. The Mark is considered the heartland of Austria and reached from the Erlabach east of the Enns on both sides of the Danube to the Vienna Woods in the east. Parts of the Riedmark , to which the Machland belonged at that time , were also part of it. In 985, at a synod of the Diocese of Passau, Nardina (Naarn) was set as the tithing area for the settlement area between Aist and Naarn . The margraviate belonged to the Duchy of Bavaria , which was part of the German Empire under King Otto I and Otto II . It was a time of area growth and a. also in the Riedmark, where colonists settled. In 996 it is first recorded that the area was called by the people of Ostarrichi (Austria).

The history of the present-day town and cadastral community of Pergkirchen , which can be documented in writing, began with the appearance of the Lords of Perg and Machland from around 1050. Perg and Pergkirchen owe their names to this highly free and noble family who moved to this area from Chiemgau around 1000 . An ancestor of the Perger with first name Pero (1030-1060) had built his castle next to Perokirchen's own church , which is likely to be identical to the current rectory of Pergkirchen. His heirs were Rudolf and Walchun von Perg. They are said to have built a Vogtburg on the Dollberg above Perg and relocated the administration of their bailiwicks from Aisthofen there. Duke Leopold III. , the saint, was first married to a daughter of the Lords of Perg around 1100 and gave birth to two sons, one of whom died early and the other, Adalbert, was long considered the logical successor of his father as Margrave.

On April 24, 1088, Bishop Altmann von Passau consecrated the church in Pergkirchen to St. Martin . The document shows the goods, forests and vineyards that Rudolfus de Perge and his wife Gysela and many of their followers gave to the new church. On March 25, 1142, Reginbert von Hagenau , Bishop of Passau, consecrated the church in Pergenkirchen and allowed all of the noble Adalramus de Perge's own people between the Naarn river and Tobrabach to be baptized there and buried in the local cemetery. This is considered to be the founding year of the Pergkirchen parish. The last Vogt of Perg, Friedrich II., Died on July 15, 1191 in Antioch on the 3rd crusade .

13th to 17th centuries

Perg becomes a market and a parish, the beginning of the Perger millstone industry
Coat of arms of the city of Perg
Parish church of Perg
Soap boiler house from 1563

At the end of the 12th or first half of the 13th century Perg was founded, which has a rectangular main square as a characteristic of the Babenberg market and town foundations.

The Mitterberg fortress in the Pergkirchen area, which was probably built by the Lords of Perg, fell to the Babenbergs after their extinction at the latest in 1218 and was expanded to become the largest castle complex in the Mühlviertel. After Schaunburg Castle (Hartkirchen municipality), it was the second largest castle in what is now Upper Austria . From 1277 to 1491 the castle was the seat of the Machland district court. Fief takers at this time were the Kapeller, the Liechtensteiner, the Prager and the Prüschenk .

King Ottokar of Bohemia , at that time also Duke of Austria , granted the citizens of Perg on July 27, 1269 in Piezkam the same trading privileges on water and on land as the citizens of Enns , Linz and other cities already enjoyed (market survey of Perg) . In 1280 a judicium (market court) for Perg was notarized. In the medieval market of Perg, the citizens (including the important guilds of millstone breakers , stonecutters and stoners ) played an important role.

In 1291 and 1293, the localities of Lanzenberg Zeitling, both in the cadastral community of Weinzierl , were first mentioned in a document, and in 1294 a first owner of Auhof Castle was named as a sovereign feudal recipient. In 1349, a third of Perg's residents died of the plague .

The Perger Stain speakers were first mentioned in 1391 in a council minutes from Freistadt . The Perg market owes its development and prosperity primarily to the millstone industry. The Perger millstones were spread throughout Central Europe. The guild of millstone breakers comprised 30 to 40 Perger citizens including their assistants and existed until 1859.

In 1470 Perg burned down in connection with Wilhelm von Puchheim's campaign. This was after Perg was burnt down in the 15th century, like other places, probably during the Hussite invasions in the Mühlviertel in 1428 and 1442. From 1489 the Jakobimarkt was held annually in Perg on the day of the church patron. From 1490 Perg belonged to the Principality of Austria ob der Enns . The Hauderer-Strasse was built between 1501 and 1519 (forerunner of the B 3 ). From 1524 the Michaelimarkt was introduced in Perg, which previously existed in Au an der Donau.

In 1416, the Jakobkapelle was probably built in place of a wooden church that had previously been there. It later formed the presbytery for the parish church ( St. Jacob , patron saint of Perg). This church already had a cemetery , but it soon became too small. In 1518 the Perger moved the Perger cemetery away from the church on the main square to today's Linzer Straße and this was inaugurated in 1522 together with the Sebastianikirche built at the time.

The parish of Perg was created in 1542 by separating it from the old parish of Naarn. Hieronymus Vereallus, bishop and papal legate (identical to Verallo Girolamo , * 1497, † 1555), granted parish rights to the Filialkirche Perg in Vienna on October 15. A foundation for the establishment of a citizens' hospital was also set up in 1542; the hospital was opened in 1554. A schoolmaster in Perg was mentioned in the Perger parish chronicle . In the Pergkirchen parish hall from 1553, a school with associated properties in the village of Pergkirchen is already listed.

In 1563 the oldest surviving town house , the soap boiler house , was built. It was one of about 80 houses that made up Perg at the time. In 1579, due to carelessness, a fire broke out in the saddler's house, to which several barns belonging to Perger citizens fell victim. The saddler had to pay damages. After this fire, the market judge ordered fire protection measures in houses and businesses on various occasions and prohibited hot work in the village. From 1583 there was a grain market in Perg every Wednesday. The granite pillory of Perger also dates from this year as an external sign of market jurisdiction.

The Reformation did not play a special role in the Perg market; there were no Protestant pastors in the Perg parish. Leonhard Lanß, the father of Thomas Lanß , who later became a professor at the Collegium Illustre in Tübingen , must have been a Protestant because he sent his son to the Evangelical Landscape School in Linz. The parish of Pergkirchen belonged to the Windhaag rule in the 16th century. Since the Vogtherr, Friedrich von Prag, was Protestant, he appointed Protestant pastors in his parishes, including Pergkirchen, probably from 1558, but no later than 1574. These had a considerable influx from more distant congregations as there were only a few pastors in the area. In 1624 all Protestant preachers and schoolmasters had to abdicate and leave the country. The Pergkirchner were made Catholic again .

In 1681 the plague raged in Perg in 1684 in Pergkirchen.

18th and 19th centuries

Establishment of the cadastral communities Perg, Pergkirchen and Weinzierl, Perg becomes the district capital
Perger Kalvarienbergkirche
Station of the Cross from 1837
  • 1708: Conflagration with devastating damage to the church, rectory, schoolhouse and 120 (according to another source 108) houses
  • In 1727 the crucifixion group was erected on the Kalvarienberg and from 1734 the construction of the Perger Kalvarienbergkirche began
  • In 1776 the Perger Au was drained and the Naarn regulated for the first time. The plots were created to Perger citizens allocated
  • 1784: Emperor Josef II ordered the establishment of tax and cadastral communities. The communities Perg, Pergkirchen and Weinzierl were created. Each of these cadastral communities , which exist to this day, received its own land register .
  • 1802: In a major fire, 42 (or 44) houses and 10 barns are destroyed.
  • During the Napoleonic Wars , Perg was occupied several times. For example, 600 soldiers of the Napoleonic army were quartered in Perg in 1809, and the citizens of Perg had to pay for their meals.
  • In 1830 the first school building was erected in Perg at Lebinger Straße 2.
  • In 1837 Franz Paur, the grandfather of the later Mayor of Perger, Johann Paur , donated the granite stations of the cross on the way to the Kalvarienbergkirche
  • On January 1, 1850, the political administration was transferred to the newly established district authorities . This came from Grein to Perg in 1868 .
  • In 1864, the market town of Perg was established as the legal successor to the common property of the Perger citizens. In the same year, the savings bank of the market municipality Perg was founded.
  • In 1868 the market municipality of Perg undertook to provide the two-storey district office building for the accommodation of the district authority, the natural apartment of the district captain and the kk tax office free of charge and irrevocably.
  • In 1873 Karl Terpinitz founded the Perg volunteer fire brigade.
  • In 1875 a fire destroyed the town hall and 8 houses. The new town hall was opened in 1876.
  • 1879 construction of the swimming school on the Naarn and 1881 construction of the Stephanie grove.
  • 1884 Anton Bruckner dedicated a piece of music to the Pergians, the Perger Prelude.
  • In 1885 the chapel in Aisthofen was built as a reminder of the great village fire
  • In 1892, Perg received a new elementary school, the cemetery was moved from Linzer Straße to Kalvarienberg and the infant care facility was opened.
  • Construction of the Mauthausen-Grein railway began in 1897 and operations began on July 3, 1898 after a year of construction. At first the trains only ran from Mauthausen to Grein, and from October 1, 1998 from St. Valentin to Grein. Originally there was a steam locomotive-operated rail connection from St. Valentin via Mauthausen and Freistadt to Budweis since 1872. The railway line was initially a local railway, but was transferred to the Austrian Federal Railways on January 1, 1939.
  • In 1900 a local Raiffeisen bank was founded in Pergkirchen, which by relocating its headquarters to Perg and merging with neighboring cooperatives became the most important Raiffeisen bank in the Perg district.

20th century

The communities of Perg, Pergkirchen and Weinzierl are combined to form the community of Perg, and Perg becomes a town
Mannersäge in Weinzierl, founded in 1911
Perger main square around 1930
Perg secondary school in 1931
  • In 1905 the volunteer fire brigade was founded in Pergkirchen
  • In 1907 the Naarntalstraße was built. It is 15 km long and rises from Perg to Steinbruckmühle at the confluence of the Great and Little Naarn by 230 m to 480 m. Before that, the Naarn valley was an impenetrable wilderness.
  • In 1911 the power plant of the municipality of Marktgemeinde Perg went into operation in the cone forge and the Mannersäge was founded.
  • In 1914 the medical department of the volunteer fire brigade was founded (Red Cross).
  • 1918: During the First World War , the parish of Perg 78 and the parish of Pergkirchen had 16 dead and missing.
  • In 1921 the three-year town school was set up in Perg on the first floor of the Seyr inn and attended by boys and girls from Perg and the surrounding towns.
  • 1921: Because there was too little change in circulation, the municipalities printed vouchers worth 10, 20 and 50 Heller .
  • In 1929 Perg became the location for a secondary school with a new building.
  • After Austria was annexed to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau ,
  • 1938 (November 1st) the village communities Weinzierl and Pergkirchen were attached to the community Perg. The two now districts of Perg had been separate municipalities since 1848, previously cadastral and tax municipalities from 1784 .
  • 1939–1945 230 Perger citizens lost their lives on the battlefields of the Second World War . A compartment was set up in the Perg cemetery for soldiers of the Red Army who died in Perg from 1944 to 1955 (end of the occupation period). Perg was briefly in the American zone of occupation in 1945 and then in the Soviet zone until 1955. With the end of the war, a great period of economic awakening began for Perg, initially hampered by the occupying power.
  • 1952 began in Schwertberg resident since 1922 Mining -Unternehmen KAMIG Austrian kaolin and mining industry AG Nfg. KG , in the village of Weinzierl with the mining of kaolin in opencast mining technique. In Aisthofen (municipality of Perg) there are processing and silo facilities as well as an administration building with the current company address.
  • In 1954, the power station of the market town of Perg built another power station at the Aschermühle site, in the same year there was the largest flood disaster of the 20th century, with enormous flooding with considerable damage also having to be accepted on the Naarn.
  • In 1955 the Ing. Erich Halatschek & Co OHG was founded, which is today Perg's largest employer and the fifth largest construction group in Austria with 2,800 employees at numerous locations in Germany and abroad
  • In 1958 the market commune was finally dissolved after a distribution of the community assets of the Perger citizens had taken place, including the market town of Perg.
  • 1959 Expansion of the cemetery on Kalvarienberg
  • In 1966 Manner set up a branch for the production of confectionery in Perg and employs around 80 people
  • In 1967, with the establishment of an upper-level secondary school on the first floor of the Seyr guest house, the development of Perg as a school town or school and training center with supraregional importance was initiated. The commercial school and academy followed in 1971, Hauptschule 2 in 1973, and in 1977 a higher education institution for economic women’s professions and a polytechnic school. The development was provisionally completed in 2001 with the start of teaching in the higher technical federal school. All the schools listed now have their own buildings and are run independently.
  • In 1969 (exactly 700 years after the market survey in 1269) the city survey took place.
  • In 1978, the Perg municipality built another power station at the Toitschmühle site.
  • In 1979 Kindergarten II was opened in Haydnstrasse.
  • In 1984 the retirement home of the Perg social welfare association was opened.
  • In 1985, the municipality of Perg built another power station at the Schartmühle site, and kaolin mining in Weinzierl was discontinued.
  • In 1985, a youth center was set up in part of the district sports hall.
  • 1988 A city partnership based on a historical event was concluded with the Bavarian city of Schrobenhausen.
  • In 1989, Meals-on-Wheels was set up to provide people in need with hot food every day.
Coat of arms of the city of Schrobenhausen
  • Since September 1989, Perg and the Upper Bavarian town of Schrobenhausen have been twinned . The contact between cities is based on historical circumstances. The master rope maker Martin Neugschwendner from Perg contributed to protecting Schrobenhausen from war damage in the Spanish War of Succession in 1704.
  • In 1992, when a kindergarten opened, public preschool childcare began in Pergkirchen
  • In 1992 the “Perg Festival” was held for the first time
  • In 1994 the volunteer fire brigade Perg and the Red Cross moved into the operations center.
  • The Machland Stadium was opened in 1996.
  • In 1997, after decades of division into several buildings, all departments of the Perg tax office are again located at Herrenstrasse 20 and 22.
  • At the end of the 1990s, the municipality of Perg built a block-type thermal power station in the leisure and school center
  • In 2002 Perg was hit by the double flood, with catastrophic flooding both on the Naarn and its tributaries and causing considerable damage to roads, bank reinforcements, power plants and penstocks, etc.
  • The technology center was opened in 2003.
  • 2004 is the founding year of the Perger carnival guild.
  • In 2004 the Perg tax office was merged with the Steyr and Kirchdorf tax offices to form the Kirchdorf-Perg-Steyr tax office.
  • In 2004, a crèche was set up in Perg for the first time to look after small children.
  • In 2007, the storm "Kyrill" caused considerable damage in the municipality.
  • In 2008 the Münzbacher feeder was opened.
  • In 2012 the official building at Herrenstrasse 20 and 22 was demolished and replaced by a modern residential and commercial building (town house). The financial administration is located on the first and second floors of the building. In two teams with a total of 35 employees, the tax office processes around 7,000 family allowance applications, 45,000 assessment files, 30,000 employee assessments, 450 company audits, investigations and surveys as well as 9,000 company assessments.

literature

  • Florian Eibensteiner, Konrad Eibensteiner: The home book of Perg, Upper Austria. Self-published, Linz 1933 ( digitized version of the Upper Austrian regional library ).
  • Gustav Brachmann: On the fire history of the market Perg. In: Mühlviertler Heimatblätter . Journal for art, culture, economy and homeland care. Owner, editor and publisher: Mühlviertler Künstlergilde in Upper Austria. Volksbildungswerk. Volume II, edition 7/8, Linz 1962, pp. 16-18 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
  • Rudolf Zach : Perg today, the economy, Perg in the mirror of history. In: Stadtgemeinde Perg (Hrsg.): Perg, Festschrift on the occasion of the city survey 1969. Linz 1969.
  • Siegfried Haider : History of Upper Austria. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-54081-5 .
  • Franz Moser: Museum educational documents Stadtmuseum Perg for working with schoolchildren in the museum. Perg self-published by Heimathaus-Stadtmuseum Perg, Perg 1993.
  • Association for the publication of a district homeland book Perg: Municipalities of the district of Perg . Linz 1995.
  • Federal Monuments Office Austria (Ed.): Dehio - Upper Austria Mühlviertel . Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-85028-362-5 .
  • Franz Moser and 10 other authors: Heimatbuch der Stadt Perg 2009 . Publisher: Heimatverein Perg and Stadtgemeinde Perg, Linz 2009, ISBN 978-3-902598-90-5 .

Web links

Commons : Perg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Zach: The prehistoric and early historical time . In: Perg, city survey 1969 . Published by Stadtgemeinde Perg, Linz 1969, p. 65.
  2. ^ Leopold Josef Mayböck : Pre- and early history . In: Our home, the district of Perg . Editor Association for the publication of a mountain district homeland book Perg - communities of the district Perg. Linz 1995, p. 29f.
  3. ↑ Rudolf Zach: The prehistoric and early historical time . In: Perg, city survey 1969 . Published by Stadtgemeinde Perg, Linz 1969, p. 65.
  4. ^ Konrad and Florian Eibensteiner: Settlement . In: Perg, Upper Austria , Illustrated Homeland Book. Self-published 1933, Linz 1933, p. 27ff.
  5. ^ Leopold Josef Mayböck: Pre- and early history . In: Our home, the district of Perg . Editor association for the publication of a district homeland book Perg, municipalities of the district Perg. Linz 1995, p. 30.
  6. ^ Leopold Josef Mayböck: The Perg room in the late early Middle Ages . In: Heimatbuch der Stadt Perg 2009 . Editor Heimatverein Perg and Stadtgemeinde Perg, Linz 2009, p. 48ff.
  7. ^ Leopold Josef Mayböck: The Perg room in the late early Middle Ages . In: Heimatbuch der Stadt Perg 2009 . Editor Heimatverein Perg and Stadtgemeinde Perg, Linz 2009, p. 52f.
  8. ^ Leopold Josef Mayböck: The Perg room in the late early Middle Ages . In: Heimatbuch der Stadt Perg 2009 . Editor Heimatverein Perg and Stadtgemeinde Perg, Linz 2009, p. 53.
  9. ^ Leopold Josef Mayböck: The time of the lords of Perg / Machland, Klam / Velburg, The high medieval Austria under the Babenbergers . In: Heimatbuch der Stadt Perg 2009 . Linz 2009, p. 56ff.
  10. ^ Rudolf Zach: The history of the parishes of Perg and Pergkirchen . In: Perg, city survey 1969 . Published by: Stadtgemeinde Perg, Linz 1969, p. 77.
  11. ^ Leopold Josef Mayböck: The castle rule Mitterberg . In: Heimatbuch der Stadt Perg 2009 . Linz 2009, p. 167ff.
  12. ↑ a b document: Upper Austrian document book, secular part (540-1399) 1269 VII 27 (Otakar, King of Bohemia, confirms the freedom from tolls to the citizens of Perg, as enjoyed by the citizens of Enns, Linz and other cities) in Europe Document archive Monasterium.net .
    Otakar, King of Bohemia, confirms that the citizens of Perg are free of tolls, just as the citizens of Ens, Linz and other cities enjoy . In:  Upper Austrian document book . Volume 3, No. CCCXCIII, Apud Piezkam, July 27, 1269, p. 367 (“Civium de Perge”).