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The settlement area around Bruck a. d. Mur was already inhabited in the Paleolithic. The Romans recognized the important function of the Mur-Mürz confluence as a traffic junction and built the Poedicum settlement there. Here the road, coming from Vindobona, led via Carinthia into the Roman settlement area. Przemysl Ottokar II built a town on the current location between Mur and Mürz in 1263. The name Bruck appears for the first time in a document from the year 860, when King Ludwig the German gave the Archbishop of Salzburg, among other things, a court called "Ad Pruccam". In 1960, Bruck was able to look back on a verifiable 1100 year existence and in 1962/63 celebrated the anniversary of the city's foundation 700 years ago. Due to its historical development, the city has a number of sights, the most famous of which is the Kornmesserhaus, a Gothic secular building. It was built between 1499 and 1505 for Pankraz Kornmess, a citizen of Bruck. The Kornmesserhaus is an expression of the economic heyday of the city of Bruck a. d. Mur and witness to the wealth of the bourgeoisie in the time of Emperor Maximilian (1493 to 1519). It can be described as the most beautiful late Gothic town house in Austria.
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