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Salzburg Festival

is a cultural event since 1920 every summer in July and August for five to six weeks in Salzburg takes place.Precursor event were (since 1877 at irregular intervals) the "International Music Festival in Salzburg." Among the performances is traditionally Hugo von Hofmannsthal's morality everyone represented its performance directed by Max Reinhardt on 22 August 1920 at the Cathedral Square marked the birth of the festival. Since then established the Festival of opera, theater and concert with about 200 events annually and more than 250,000 visitors to one of the most important and prestigious festivals.The Salzburg Whitsun Festival was in 1973 by Herbert von Karajan founded. Since 1998, they are an integral part of the Salzburg Festival. After a five-year leadership by Riccardo Muti (2007-2011) followed by Cecilia Bartoli in 2012 as Artistic Director.

Celtic Museum in Hallein

is located in the Tennengauer district capital Hallein in the Austrian province of Salzburg and is one of the most important collections of testimonies of Celtic art and history in Europe and provides a comprehensive overview of the Celtic world with a focus on alpine area ( Alpine Celts ).The building also houses the town Museum in Hallein on the development of the town of Hallein, the Hallein Salt Mine, the insights into the historical salt mining at Dürrnberg since Celtic times to enter into the late Middle Ages and the Silent Night Museum in Hallein, that the legislative history of the Christmas carol Silent Night holy night is dedicated.At around 3,000 m 2 exhibition area shows the Celtic museum exhibits on the subjects of the Celts, salt, and the Christmas carol Silent Night, Holy Night.

Hallein Salt Mines

is one of tourist considerations created in 2005 as a collective term for three mine accessible salt mines in Austria.Each one is located in Hall One of the district Bad Dürrnberg (Salzburg), in Hallstatt (Upper Austria) and in Altaussee (Styria).The mine is located in the Tennengauer Hallein district capital and was previously known as the "salt mine in Hallein."The new name was chosen to the position of the mine in the province of Salzburg and to characterize its significance for the city of Salzburg.In Hall One mine was before about 2500 years ago by the Celts mined salt.Thanks to the large salt deposit in Dürrnberg was Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau contribute to the rich returns for the expansion of the baroque town of Salzburg. Special features in this mine are two long miners' slides, a ride on the mine train, a raft ride on a subterranean salt lake and as the "Celtic Village" designated small open-air museum of days.

Silent Night Museum in Hallein

Another focus is the creation and distribution history of the Christmas carol Silent Night, Holy Night. The museum belonging to the Celtic Silent Night Museum is the former home of composer Franz Xaver Gruber and placed beside his portrait shows, original furniture and personal items from his estate, including those with the guitar Gruber on 24 December 1818 the world premiere of the song in the old, now defunct church in Oberndorf near Salzburg, accompanied (where is a Silent Night museum as well).Franz Xaver Gruber, on 7 June 1863, died at his home lived 28 years in the city of Hallein and was buried at the city cemetery.

Castle Gutrat

located at Hallein in the state of Salzburg in Austria.The castle is perched on a limestone cliff visible from far above the Salzach Valley.The castle extends from north to south following the narrow castle rock.The castle was to protect the Gutrat in the 12th Century rediscovered saline at the foot of the hill north of Tuval-Hallein on behalf of Archbishop Adalbert III. set up.As a builder of the castle of Count was Hohenwerfen Chuno of throwing Schnaitsee-commissioned.Chuno of throwing was one of the most respected ministry officials (service men) the Archbishop of Salzburg.Already in 1209 the Chuno called according to his own castle new release, "of Gutrat".At that time probably the castle have been already completed.The fortress Gutrat should the power of the archbishop over the Salzach and strengthen the disputed ownership of the Duke Provost Berchtesgaden final for Salzburg to decide.After the salt had dried, the castle lost rapidly in importance.Around the year 1300, the sex of Gutrater fell at the Salzburg Archbishop of favor.The formerly free Gutrat own castle became the property of the archdiocese and became the Gutratern as a fief granted.After the death of the last Gutrater 1304 was left to the castle ruin.

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