did not leave any traces in Ausseerland. The next population group that can be proved with certainty were the Slavs. Name-related traces of the Slavic settlement can be found in the entire Ausseerland (place names and field names ending in -itz, -itsch, -isch, in Grundlsee eg, Stimitz, Toplitz, Zimitz ). Around 800, a strong influx of baju goods began. Important traces of the first contact of the Slavs with the Bavarians are again the place names. The earliest datable Eindeutschungen of place names in the Ausseerland come from the Old High German time before 1100. Middle Ages The name Grundlsee ( apud chrungilse ) was first mentioned on 2 August 1188 in a document. Duke Ottokar IV was on this day at the Grundlsee and sealed there three documents. After the death of the last Babenberg Duke Frederick II in 1246, the chosen archbishop of Salzburg, Philipp von Spanheim, occupied large parts of the Enns Valley and thus also the Ausseerland. In order to fortify the new claim to power and to protect the nearby salt mines on the Sandling massif and the mule tracks, he built the small fortress Pflindsberg in neighboring Altaussee. Philipp von Spanheim had to retire after the peace of furnace from 1254 and the castle and the Ausseerland were incorporated into 1260 in Styria. The previous history of Ausseerland is controversial. Most likely it was part of a county in the Ennstal under the Margraves of the Carinthian Mark in the 12th to 13th centuries. The theory that the Ausseer area previously belonged to County Traunau, can not be proven. The plant developed into an administrative center with lower jurisdiction of the independent rule Pflindsberg, which was separated from the sovereign rule Grauscharn-Pürgg. It comprised about 90% of the goods of the Ausseerland and was as a part of the Salzkammergut princely. Protestantism, re-catholization (from 1599), dominance of salt mining With the Reformation in the 16th century, the population of Ausseerland had become largely Protestant. From 1599, a recatholization commission violently enforced the Counter-Reformation. From the larger military conflicts and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries ( peasant wars, Thirty Years War ) the entire Ausseerland was spared. Reasons for the lack of social tensions were a relatively secure livelihood of the population and far-reaching social concessions on the part of the authorities. The entire Salzkammergut was a closed territory, which had dedicated