Freistadt

Freistadt is a small Austrian town in the nation of Upper Austria within the place Muhlviertel. With a population of about 7,500 citizens, it's miles a alternate centre for local villages. Freistadt is the economic centre of a district of the same call District Freistadt. The nearest big towns are Linz, the capital of Upper Austria, about 40 km inside the south, and Ceske Budějovice, the capital of Southern Bohemia, about 60 km within the north. The vicinity surrounding Freistadt came under the dominion of the Bavarian Duchy in the 7th century.

Freistadt was founded earlier than 1220. The Babenberg Duke Leopold VI surpassed through the vicinity in 1225. The earliest mention of Frienstat is in a file from 1241, however in 1277, Rudolf von Habsburg cited Vreinstat in every other file. Its position separated the Habsburg and Bohemian lands, and it stood at crossroads of the treasured salt and iron exchange direction, which had operated from prehistoric instances thru the Middle Ages. The outer and inner walls, towers and gates of the antique metropolis, built especially among 1363 and 1393, nonetheless exist these days.