Structures - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1962 - 60 Groschen

The Ledererturm, a rare tower name and thus also in linguistic relation a special peculiarity of the city of Wels, completes its magnificent city square towards the west. In the past, the leather production at Mühlbach had its headquarters in front of this tower. The Ledererturm is the only surviving one of the original four Welser gate towers. It stands in the course of the medieval city wall from the time of Albrecht III. (1376) and has been rebuilt several times, most recently at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War. The city of Wels is located at the crossroads of two traffic routes prescribed by nature. The east-west line goes along the Traun. The Celts founded in recognition of the importance of the Tauern transition at this point a settlement and gave her a name from which the Romans made "Ovilava" and from the locative "Ovalavis" probably about 776 in the document mentioned "Castrum Uueles" the shape of catfish originated , The north-south line from the Danube via the Traun near Wels led to the Phyrnpass, then via Virunum at the customs field and finally to the city of Aquileia, or after its destruction by Attila to Venice. Thus Wels was marked by its traffic-technical situation since prehistoric time by the passage of peoples of the most diverse cultural circles and experienced over the centuries a moving history.