Description of the attraction
Scherding is an Austrian city located on the banks of the Inn River south of Passau in the federal state of Upper Austria. The area around Sherding has been inhabited since the Neolithic. During the Roman Empire, there were routes to the Danube. Sherding was first mentioned in historical documents in 806. From the 10th century, the territory was taken over by the county of Neuburg, and from 1248 the land became the property of the Wittelsbachs.
By the 13th century, Sherding had developed into a prosperous trading city, trading in salt, timber, wine, silk, livestock and grain. From 1429 to 1436, under Duke Ludwig Teten, various fortifications were erected in the city: gates, ditches, walls.
After the Congress of Vienna in 1816, Sherding found himself on the edge of the state, and all trade routes were cut off by the customs border. The salt trade quickly came to a standstill, and the former transport routes lost their relevance. The economic stagnation that followed this situation was the reason that Sherding today has an almost completely preserved historic urban landscape and is a member of the Association of Small Historic Cities.
The city is very interesting from a tourist point of view, as it is itself a tourist attraction with houses from the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Most of the buildings are made in the Baroque style, surrounded by almost intact city walls, as well as medieval gates. Of interest is the parish church of St. George, built in the middle of the 14th century and rebuilt in the Baroque style in 1726.
There is a city museum in Sherding, which tells about the development of the city and its environs in different historical periods.
