The finally halt on our 4-day jaunt to the Bavarian Alps was a quick side trip to
Salzburg, Austria, the birthplace of
Mozart in addition to the master copy abode of the
Sound of Music's von Trapp family. I had never been to Salzburg but based on what others had told me, I had high expectations.
But earlier nosotros create Salzburg, I desire to accept you lot to
Hallein, Austria, a town nigh 10 miles southwest of Salzburg in addition to an equal distance northeast of Berchtesgaden, Germany. We spent the starting fourth dimension nighttime of our trip at the
Kolpinghaus in Hallein. It is run past times the Kolpingwerk Foundation, 1 of the largest social organizations of the Catholic church, in addition to provides hostel-type accommodations for students. In the summertime (July in addition to August) it operates equally a reasonably priced hotel (and no, you lot don't conduct hold to hold upwards Catholic or religious to remain there). The Kolpinghaus inwards Hallein consists of vii multi-story patrician houses originally built inwards the 1600s. Completely renovated nigh 10 years ago, the accommodations were unexpectedly spacious in addition to comfortable. Our room was on the fifth flooring in addition to offered stunning views of the foursquare inwards front end of the hotel in addition to beyond.
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| View from our window at the Kolpinghaus Hotel inwards Hallein, Austria |
The town of Hallein is fairy small-scale (pop. 21,000) but it's the minute largest municipality inwards the Austrian terra firma of Salzburg, after the eponymous capital. The expanse was settled equally long agone equally 4000 BCE in addition to the town was founded inwards the early on 1300s. Today Hallein is best known for its beautifully preserved historic pith in addition to for the Silent Night Museum dedicated to
Silent Night, arguably the best known Christmas vocal of all times. It was composed inwards 1818 past times óne Franz Xaver Gruber inwards a hamlet nearby.
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| Salzach River inwards downtown Hallein, alongside mountains inwards the nigh distance |
I was surprised past times how deserted Hallein was for a Sabbatum evening. Not that nosotros were complaining; it gave us the feeling of having the town to ourselves.
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| Historic Old Town inwards Hallein |
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| These mannequins were for sale for €45. I was seriously bummed I couldn't accept 1 home. I would conduct hold loved to stick a mannequin or ii nether the bay trees inwards the backyard. |
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| No head, no limbs, no problem--only €25 inwards that case |
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| Hey, a namesake of mine has a hotel in addition to pub inwards Hallein! The discussion "Wirt" after "Bock" agency innkeeper. |
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| Beautifully painted inn |
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| Central foursquare inwards the pump of Hallein |
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| Blue hr only downwards the street from our hotel |
Fast forwards directly to twenty-four hr menstruum 4 of our trip. After spending ii nights inwards an Airbnb rental inwards Berchtesgaden, Germany, nosotros returned to Republic of Austria for a quick see to Salzburg. Since nosotros alone had a few hours in addition to aren't large Mozart fans, nosotros decided to ignore all the Mozart materials (although, completely coincidentally, nosotros walked both past times the solid where Mozart was born in addition to the solid where he lived afterward on).
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| Hohensalzburg Castle towering higher upwards Salzburg's Old Town |
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| One of many beautiful world plantings inwards Salzburg |
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| Spotted inwards a pedestrian underpass. While Salzburg lives off Mozart's name, I conduct hold a feeling non everybody is a fan. |
We started our explorations inwards the
Getreidegasse (literally "Grain Lane"), the chief shopping street inwards the pump of the historic Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996. The Getreidegasse is 1 of Salzburg's biggest tourist attractions, non alone because it's a shopping mecca for those thus inclined but also because of the immaculately preserved attached town houses alongside their wrought-iron signs. (In the onetime days, the signs indicated which club a merchant belonged to; today they behaviour the names of the commercial establishments inwards whatever given building.)
But there's 1 matter I found only equally impressive equally the multitude of signs: the sheer divulge of people milling about. While I suspect the crowds are worse inwards the summer, I conduct hold a feeling Salzburg is never without tourists.
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| Check out the fancy sign at McDonald's! |
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| Mozartkugels inwards many dissimilar packages |
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| Clothing store window advertising air-conditioning. I suspect it's a pop identify for tourists inwards the summer, seeing how real few places inwards Salzburg conduct hold AC. |
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| Picturesque beer garden inwards a courtyard off Getreidegasse |
Our master copy invention had been to aspect at to a greater extent than sights inwards the Old Town in addition to thus drive upwards to
Hohensalzburg Castle towering higher upwards the city, but it was thus hot in addition to thus humid that twenty-four hr menstruum that nosotros only gave up. The fact that nosotros even thus had a 4+ hr drive ahead of us to teach dorsum to my mother's solid inwards Northern Bavaria made our conclusion easier.
One our way dorsum to the parking garage nosotros crossed the Salzach River on Markatsteg, a footbridge that has conk Salzburg's "Bridge of Love" because of the thousands of locks attached to the chain-link fencing. On
TripAdvisor, it's ranked #25 of 171 things to create inwards Salzburg. I've seen locks of beloved inwards other places (including the UC Davis Arboretum in addition to on the route to Tofino on Vancouver Island, British Columbia), but never that many. Not everybody is enthralled alongside
this practice, but I had a grin on my human face upwards equally I walked across the river.
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| Markatsteg across the Salzach River |
The finally photograph I took inwards Salzburg was of a typical pedestrian crossing nigh our parking garage. Yes, all these people crossed the street on the same dark-green light. Stupendous!
I create wishing we'd had to a greater extent than fourth dimension to pass inwards Salzburg--and that the conditions had been less hot in addition to sticky. As it was, nosotros barely scratched the surface. But at to the lowest degree nosotros conduct hold an excuse to conk dorsum if the chance e'er presents itself.
I even thus desire to elbow grease a
Mozartkugel made from the master copy recipe past times Paul Fürst, the Salzburg confectioner who "invented" it inwards 1890. His descendants even thus piece of job the pastry store at Brodgasse 13. Insiders country Fürst's
original Mozartkugel tastes fifty-fifty amend than the mass-market versions past times Mirabell in addition to Reber. Which, inwards my opinion, are mighty fine already (in the United States you lot tin discovery them inwards places similar Cost Plus World Market).
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