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Vinzenz Kriechmayr, the speedy skier, and Gramastettner Krapferl are as much a part of the village as the late Gothic church and the Abbot of Wilhering as parish priest. The first people settled on the hill above the Rodl Gorge as early as the Neolithic Age. In the 12th century, the Wilheringers took possession of the area. In 1518, the town was elevated to market town status after ‘our beloved and loyal subjects of our village of Gramastetten humbly requested it,’ as stated in the foundation charter of Emperor Maximilian I. The market owes its name to a settler named ‘Grimhard’. However, the trading and commercial town has earned its good reputation itself. In the 15th century, a late Gothic church dedicated to St. Laurentius was built, although the onion dome on the tower is late Baroque. Just outside the centre of the village, a Way of the Cross with a Calvary Church visible from afar was built on the opposite hill in the 19th century. On the ‘Kirchleitn’ behind the parish church, the ‘Jahresstiege’ (annual staircase) with 365 steps leads down to the Rodl. Alois Peither, a barber from Gramastetten who later became the local doctor, pursued a major social project in the 19th century. The steep slope was to be terraced, providing work and plantations for food production for the poor of the village. Pastor Konrad Just also went down in history. He was considered the ‘Don Camillo’ of the Mühlviertel region because of his sermons. The Nazis imprisoned him in a concentration camp for his free speech. On hot summer days, you can cool off in the Rodlbad, and if you like ruins, Lichtenhag Castle will also fulfil your wish.