Salzburg Scenes

Larger scenes of Salzburg, from several days' travels

Boat ride on the Salzach; yes, this is one of

the things we might not have ordinarily done;

but it was a nice way to relax for an hour

View from the Hohen Salzburg Fortress; the Fortress dates

from the 11th century; was never taken in battle; wisely

surrendered to Napoleon without a fight

View of the Fortress from our campground that evening

In the Salzburger Museum, a painting of the city as it

looked about the time the Scheraus' lived here

The Fortress now, from the summit of the Monchsberg,

one of Salzburg's several hills

It's a city of domes; from the Monchsberg

Larger view from the Monchsberg

Us on the Monchsberg

Mirabelle Gardens

Our first stop was Mirabelle Gardens, in the middle of the (newer) city, south side of the river Salzach

Rose and other flower garden 

Vicki by a unicorn we think we have a photo

of from '89

Mirabelle view

Us, in Mirabelle, with the Salzburg High

Fortress behind us

Salzburg: A Few Words of Explanation

The next six or eight posts, whenever we have internet long enough to upload them, are all about Salzburg. There are several reasons for this. First, Salzburg is the ancestral Sherouse (Scheraus) home. The Scheraus family emigated sometime in the 1730s, following Prince/Archbishop Firmian's 1731 edict expelling all Jews, Gypsies, and Protestants. The Scheraus's went first to Augsburg, then, in 1741, to the new colony of Georgia, settling with other Salzburgers at Ebeneezer and later New Ebeneezer, not far from Savannah. That's another story. Second, Salzburg is one of the prettiest small cities (c. 150,000) in the world, and a place with which we have considerable previous acquaintance. Third, it is one of the best-known music and festival cities in the world. W. A. Mozart owns the place; they even named the airport after him. And fourth, Salzburg has a very affordable tourist day-card, which, if used judiciously, can save a ton of money; and get you into a lot of places you might not have otherwise visited. We bought the 72-hour card, and it nearly paid for itself just in public transportation. Anyhow, on to Salzburg.

Salzkammergut

We spent the evening at an aire near Bad Aussee, torrential rains continuing. Since we were entering the Salzkammergut, the lake country east of Salzburg, we decided to watch The Sound of Music, much of which was filmed in the area.  Corny as it sounds, it's a movie we still enjoy. After the Grossglockner, we weren't going to climb any more mountains, nor ford any streams (too high with all the rain, etc.). Anyhow, the next day (Sunday?) we did a driving tour of the Salzkammergut, ending up at the Panorama Campground in Salzburg.

Traditional boats on Halstattsee; we had wanted to visit

Hallstatt again, as we did in 1989, but there was no RV

parking, and the natives did not seem friendly

One sees much evidence of logging in the Alps--logging

trucks like this one, mills scattered here and there; but

never any clear-cuts or anything unsightly

A canoe-catcher on the river (weir)

On Traunsee, approaching Gmund, the Traunkirchen, which

is pictured prominently in Sound of Music

Closer-up of Traunkirchen and its amazing

backdrop north of the Dachstein Gruppe

Market square in pretty Mondsee

The Mondsee Basilika, where Maria and the

Captain married

Interior

Mondsee and more of the Dachsteins

Austrians seem to think they have an identity

problem (I think a Jim Carey line in Dumb

and Dumber led to this)