Many
Romans lived in Salzburg.
The first archaeological proof of this was found at Grödig,
near Salzburg. At the foot of the Untersberg mountain,
it is the only place in Austria where archaeological
finds have indicated the presence
of human settlement lasting from the coming of
the Romans, not long before Christ's birth, to the present
day.
The
Saler or Sallerhof is one of the oldest
farms in Grödig.Because it used to belong
to St Peter's Monastery in Salzburg,
we can follow the course of its history uninterrupted
over 600 years in the archives of the monastery and
the region.
Three
families ran the farm during
these 600 years. First
were the Salers, who also gave the property its name.
From 1648 it belonged to the Pfannhausers, and from
1838 onwards to the Reichls.
A
certain Kunradus Saler of 1369 is mentioned for the
first time in a 1372 document of St Peter¹s Monastery
detailing all dependent serf farmers subject to taxation.
This
entire document is written in Latin in a beautiful
monastic script. It was lost at the end of the
war in 1945 and reappeared in Cairo, Egypt,
in December 1950. It was purchased by Austrians living
there and thus returned to Salzburg.
In
1648 Rupert Pfannhauser married Michael Saler's daughter
Magdalena.
Georg
Pfannhauser sold the Saller estate to Franz Reichl in
1838. The Reichl family originated in the Swiss Canton
of Schwyz and probably came to Salzburg during the Napoleonic
Wars.
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