Perg

Perg is a Upper Austrian township inside the lower Muhlviertel on the northern edge of the Machlands with 8642 population. The city is located 35 km east of Linz and 7 km north of the Danube at the Naarn at 250 m above sea degree. A., because 1868 administrative headquarters of the district Perg and region of the district courtroom Perg. Already in 1269 awarded King Ottokar II of Bohemia the residents of Perg market rights. The name Perg owes the Lord of Perg, the financial significance from the 14th century, amongst others, the millstone crusher and the Hafner guild.

From the townscape of the Middle Ages and early contemporary instances are due to several devastating fires simplest the parish church from the fifteenth and the Seifensiederhaus from the 16th century preserved. In the village of Weinzierl, a glacial searching station from the overdue Paleolithic become moored in the Nineteen Nineties. The presence of human beings in the Neolithic Age is evidenced by diverse reveals of stone axes and their fragments from the duration between 5000 and 1500 BC.