Stadl-Paura

Stadl-Paura is a marketplace city in Upper Austria in the district of Wels-Land with 5037 inhabitants. The community is historically about 1/2 in Hausruckviertel and Traunviertel. Today it is counted with the complete district Wels-Land to Hausruckviertel. When salt deposits in Hallstatt have been likely already found inside the Neolithic duration and alternate inside the white gold started, the primary agreement happened in Stadl on the Paura hill. The humans living there probably settled particularly due to the tracking of the waterway on the hill. For transporting the salt shipping routes have been wished, for which the Traun became excellently desirable. Only after crossing the Traunsee become an obstacle that become insurmountable for the time, the Traunfall.

The salt had to be transhipped at this factor and taken with the aid of horse and cart or similar in a place where the Traun became navigable again and sufficient area was available. The location of ​​state-of-the-art Stadl proved to be most efficient for these activities. In Stadl there was consequently a pre-Christian salt storage area and a reloading point. Excavations on the Paurahugel show that it turned into no longer just a easy farming settlement, however a fortified base.