DomQuartier in Salzburg
All you loyal readers of my Liège posts might recall that for over eight centuries, from 980–1795, “a large swath of what is now Belgium was ruled from Liège by Read More …
Category: Austria
Birthplace of Georg Trakl
The poet Georg Trakl was born in Salzburg in 1887. His birth house, at Waagplatz 1a, is now the site of the Trakl Research and Memorial Center. It can be Read More …
Georg Trakl’s apprenticeship
Linzer Gasse is a narrow street in Salzburg on the right bank of the Salzach River. The pharmacy at Linzer Gasse 5 is the Engel-Apotheke (Angel Pharmacy), which was founded Read More …
Georg Trakl at St. Peter’s
This impressive Baroque church was extensively re-modeled from 1760 to 1782, but they say the building itself dates from the year 1147. St. Peter’s Abbey is even older, as it Read More …
Georg Trakl’s baptism
This Protestant church (Evangelische Christuskirche) on the right bank of the Salzach River is where the future poet Georg Trakl was baptized on February 8, 1887. So even as a Read More …
Georg Trakl in the Mirabell Gardens
The Mirabell Gardens, on the right bank of the Salzach River in Salzburg, are laid out so they point directly towards the fortress. In front of the fortress are the Read More …
Mozart’s operas
Here’s my list of the operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), including a few that were never completed or are sometimes listed as something else. As on my Verdi list, Read More …
Café Tomaselli in Salzburg
Austrian cafés have a reputation for being calm, sedate, dignified, leisurely, homey, unhurried… Which some of them are, but if you’re an impatient 21st century type of person you might Read More …
The clean-up man
Clip clop (or rather klip klop) go the horses’ hooves that echo through the pedestrianized streets around the Cathedral and Saint Peter’s Abbey and the Festival Halls of Salzburg. Tourists Read More …
Love locks in Salzburg
Although Salzburg cannot compete with Paris in terms of sheer tonnage of love locks (in 2015 Paris removed 45 tons of locks from the Pont des Arts), Salzburg also has Read More …