 Some rural cadastral toponyms, for instance "Pfaffental" (meaning roughly "Parson’s Dale"), still recall a time when Sankt Julian was an important pilgrimage place, and perhaps also the seat of a monastery.The municipal area was worked on into the 20th century by small agricultural landholds that busied themselves with grain growing, livestock raising, fruitgrowing and, on a small scale, winegrowing.A few bigger farms had between 10 and 20 hectares, while most others were quite small, with some 3 or 4 hectares.