Sunday, July 7, 2019
Because of timing, we had missed going to Königssee, a fjord-like 8 km/5- mile long lake in the shadow of Watzmann Mountain. We were to take a boat ride to the island Church of St Barthalomä, surrounded by a beer garden. Since we had seen much of Salzburg, I decided we should go back very early to Königssee, about a 30-minute drive.
It had started to rain in Salzburg, and it was a downpour at Königssee. We had a breakfast in the car of sesame rolls and dried sausage sticks! Checking the weather forecast, there was no hope of it clearing. We returned to the hotel to catch up on our sleep.
When the rain let up, we went out to see a few more things in Salzburg.
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Mistakenly referred to as the Executioner's House,
where no one wanted to live nearby, was instead the
Krautwächterhaus/Herb Keeper's House on a hillock
of land that was supposed to have some unique plants |
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Kapitelschwemme/Chapter Watering Place (1732
in Roman numerals added up from the inscription)
with statue of Neptune, was a bathing pool for horses |
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| Kapitelplatz/Chapter Square chess board |
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| Kapitelplatz chess board on 8/15/1980 |
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| More active photo of the chess board (KSS) |
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Wetterstation/Weather Station (1888) has a thermometer
and barometer; the base has a geodetic height marking,
which indicates the exact altitude for the center of
Salzburg, at 424.25 m/1392' above the Adriatic Sea |
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| Stairs up to the Restaurant Hagenauer |
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| Traditional mixed with modern décor |
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| Skinny Trumer Pils beer |
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| Spinatknödel/Spinach dumplings in Butter und Parmesan |
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| Steinpilzravioli/Mushroom Ravioli in Butter und Parmesan |
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The restaurant was in the backside of
Mozart's Geburthaus/Birthplace |
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| The back of Mozart's Birthplace on 8/15/1980 |
Back to Kapitelplatz and into a corner of
Stift St Peter/St Peter's Abbey.
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View of the funicular (1892, but modernized)
up to Fortress Hohensalzburg |
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Wasserrad/Water wheel using power of the Alm Canal; here it powered
a grain mill for the Stiftsbäckerei/Abbey bakery, the oldest in Salzburg |
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Stiftskirche/Abbey Church of St Peter (1147,
the oldest church in Salzburg) |
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Petersfriedhof/St Peter's Cemetery (1657), which has three churches, each
founded in the Middle Ages atop a pagan Celtic site |
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Cemetery view of catacombs dug into the cliff, where
hermit monks are supposed to have lived before becoming burial sites |
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Grave of US Major General Harry Collins,
an honorary citizen of the city of Salzburg (KSS) |
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| Arcade LIV was the burial site for a Mozart and a Haydn |
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Marker for Wolfgang's sister Marianne, known as Nannerl,
and Josef Haydn's brother Johann |
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| Stiftskeller/Abbey Cellar is said to be the world's oldest restaurant |
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We passed through Toscaninihof and noticed the
doors were open to the Festival Hall! The annual
festival is to begin on July 20th (to Aug 31st) |
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| Gurken/Gherkins (2011, by Erwin Wurm) |
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| Statue (1867) of Friedrich Schiller |
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| Tamiko with a gherkin (KSS) |
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| Kent with a bigger gherkin |
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| Mönchsberg Cliff Face 61 m/200' high (KSS) |
In 1600 there was an unsuccessful attempt to tunnel through Mönchsberg, and the stones were used to build the cathedral. The current tunnel was built 1764-1767.
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Marstallschwemme/Stables Watering Place (11695-1696, by Fischer
von Erlach, who built the riding schools and royal stables); note the
amphibious bus at the traffic light, used for tours on land and river (KSS) |
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| The ramp to lead horses into the "bath" |
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| Is this their everyday wear? |
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| We treated ourselves to the Fürst first original Mozartkugeln! |
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| Back on Getreidegasse with all the wrought-iron signs |
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