Mühlviertel

The Mühlviertel consists of the four Upper Austrian districts that lie north of the river Danube: Rohrbach, Urfahr-Umgebung, Freistadt and Perg.

The parts of the state capital Linz that lie north of the Danube also belong to the Mühlviertel.

Major towns include Rohrbach, Bad Leonfelden, Freistadt and Perg.

The region was the site of a notorious war crime at the end of World War II in which hundreds of starving Soviet POWs escaped from nearby Mauthausen concentration camp and were pursued and murdered around Mühlviertel.

The SS referred to the event as the Mühlviertler Hasenjagd ("Mühlviertel rabbit hunt").