Incidentally, the founding year of the Wietersdorf works was also to become the founding year of the Peggau site. To be more precise, it was a gentleman called Johann Hofbauer who began to retrieve lime and gravel from the Peggau site. The gravel was first and foremost used for building roads and railway lines. In those early days, the limestone was simply mined without any further processing or treatment before being sold.
