Strata hungarica
Strata hungarica , also Hungarian road, is the name of a trade route into the Pannonian region, which has led through the Graz field to the east since prehistoric times . Presumably the emergence of Graz as a market place on this street was favored.
Coming from the west, it led through the Murtore into the city of Graz, then over the northern part of the main square into the Sporgasse and through this to the Paulustor on to Graz St. Leonhard , where the path branched off through the Stiftingtal and reached beyond the watershed at Eggersdorf , where there was once a customs post, the Raab Valley . In Roman times this path can be understood as a connection to Savaria / Steinamanger / Szombathely and is attested to around 1128/1129 as strata hungarica near Hartberg .
The residents along the street were repeatedly called in for maintenance and repairs, as evidenced by accounts from the 16th century. In 1780 house owners in Grazer Schörgelgasse and Waltendorf applied for exemption from the "Hungarian Street Robot", but were turned away.
The Ungarische Straße , a former Reichsstraße , has been part of the network of federal highways in Austria since 1921 . Since 1971 it has been called Gleisdorfer Straße .
literature
- Walter Brunner on behalf of the City of Graz, Kulturamt (Ed.): History of the City of Graz (in 4 volumes), self-published by the City of Graz 2003, ISBN 3-902234-02-4