Steyr

Steyr is a statutory metropolis, positioned inside the Austrian federal country of Upper Austria. It is the executive capital, even though now not part of Steyr-Land District. Steyr is Austria's twelfth maximum populated town and the third largest metropolis in Upper Austria. The metropolis has an extended history as a manufacturing middle and has given its name to numerous producers founded there, such as the previous Steyr-Daimler-Puch conglomerate and its successor Steyr Motors. Celts settled the vicinity from approximately six hundred BC, the name of the Stiria River is of Celtic origin. Their nation of Noricum became part of the Roman Empire in 15 BC.

A agreement named Gesodunum noted by the historical geographer Claudius Ptolemy became in all likelihood placed inside the Steyr place. Here the Roman "Iron Road" led from the Erzberg mine alongside the Enns River to the castra of Lauriacum at the Danube. In the 6th century, Slavic settlers moved into the location, after they were defeated via Duke Tassilo III of Bavaria, who granted the land to nearby Kremsmunster Abbey in 777, the place changed into resettled with Bavarians.