Tulln's eventful history

The fact that Tulln is one of the oldest towns in Austria is due to its exposed location directly on the banks of the Danube. Even the Romans saw this as a clear advantage:

Until the 4th century, the cavalry troops stationed at Fort Comagena protected the Noric Limes, controlled the militarily significant ford and monitored the fertile Tullnerfeld. From late antiquity, Comagena was even a naval base for the Danube fleet. In the last years of Roman rule, there are also reports of a visit by St. Severin and the miraculous rescue of the city from the barbarians.

From the 11th century onwards, Tulln once again became the center of world events at the time. The Babenberg dynasty made the town its residence. Tulln flourished as a trading center and was even mentioned in the Song of the Nibelungs, which was written around the year 1200. It sings of the meeting of the Hun king Etzel with Kriemhild, Siegfried's widow, in Tulln. From here, the couple traveled together to their wedding in Vienna. From the 14th century onwards, Turkish invasions, floods and the Thirty Years' War took their toll on the town. It was not until the construction of the Franz Josef Railway and a bridge over the Danube in the 1870s that Tulln experienced a new upswing.

Full of memories

From the past centuries, Tulln has saved numerous witnesses of great times into the present - from the Romanesque charnel house at the parish church to the intact ensemble of Gothic and Baroque houses in the city center.

The town owes this intactness not least to the sense of tradition and civic spirit of its inhabitants, who actively participate in new projects and at the same time work to preserve the tried and tested. For example, Tulln's "living room", the newly designed, historic main square, presents itself as an exciting mix of tradition and modernity.