Mayer's Restaurant Zell am See - Mayer's Restaurant, Zell am See. Hohensalzburg Castle. Hohensalzburg Castle in Salzburg, Austria Hohensalzburg Castle (German: Festung Hohensalzburg, literally "High Salzburg Fortress") sits atop the Festungsberg, a small hill in the Austrian city of Salzburg.
Erected at the behest of the Prince-Archbishops of Salzburg with a length of 250 m (820 ft) and a width of 150 m (490 ft), it is one of the largest medieval castles in Europe. History[edit] Early history[edit] One of the earliest depictions of the castle in the 1460s, from the Schedel'sche Weltchronik. Untersberg. Geography[edit] The Untersberg rises at the rim of the Northern Limestone Alps, immediately at the Salzburg Basin and the broad Salzach Valley.
Neighbouring peaks are the Hoher Göll in the southeast and Mt. Watzmann in the south, beyond the Berchtesgaden Basin. In the northwest, the Saalach Valley with Bad Reichenhall separates it from the Hochstaufen mountain range. Mirabell Palace. Mirabell Palace in Salzburg, Austria Mirabell Palace (German: Schloss Mirabell) is a historical building in the city of Salzburg, Austria.
The palace with its gardens is a listed cultural heritage monument and part of the Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg UNESCO World Heritage Site. History[edit] It was built about 1606 outside the medieval walls of Salzburg according to Italian and French models, at the behest of Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich Raitenau as a residence for his mistress Salome Alt. When Raitenau was deposed and arrested in 1612, Alt and her family were expelled and the palace received its current name from Italian: mirabile, bella: "amazing", "wonderful".