Sankt Johann im Pongau

Sankt Johann lies in the Salzach valley in Salzburg's Pongau. A church here was recorded in 924, and the name Saint John appears in 1074. The settlement had become a market by 1290, and a new church was consecrated in 1329. Copper was mined in the surrounding mountains from ancient times, while the valley connected the market with neighbouring Alpine districts.

During the Peasants' War of 1525–1526 the settlement was plundered and devastated. A separate district court was established in 1672. The Hallein school sisters settled here in 1723 to run a primary school. The expulsion of Protestants from the Salzburg archbishopric reached its height in 1731, when some 2,500 people were forced to leave the parish of Sankt Johann. In 1812 the town became the seat of a deanery.