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Rudolf von Alt
The painter who captured Salzburg before the modern world arrived. Rudolf von Alt's detailed, luminous watercolours of Residenzplatz, Salzburg Cathedral, and Getreidegasse constitute one of the most important visual…
THE LOCALS
People who shaped Salzburg
Artists, composers, guides, hoteliers, chefs, makers, and founders with a real connection to the city.
204Salzburg lives and work
The origins map
Where Salzburg's people came from
A magnet more than a cradle: most of these figures were born elsewhere and came to Salzburg. Every pin is a birthplace.
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Saint Erentrudis
The founding abbess of Nonnberg Abbey, the oldest continuously inhabited convent north of the Alps. Saint Rupert of Salzburg, her uncle and the founding father of Salzburg, established the abbey for her around 714 AD.…
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Saint Florian of Lorch
The patron saint of firefighters, and one of the most visible saints in Salzburg. His statue stands on the Florianibrunnen at the Alter Markt, depicting him in his classic pose: Roman soldier's armour, a bucket of…
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Saint Rupert of Salzburg
Frankish bishop from Worms, born c. 650. Invited to the Salzburg region by Bavarian duke Theodo around 696 AD. Founded Stift St. Peter (c. 696) and Nonnberg Abbey (c. 715). Named the settlement "Salzburg." Consecrated…
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Saint Severinus of Noricum
The man who kept Christianity alive in the Salzburg region when everything around it was falling apart. When the Western Roman Empire collapsed in the 5th century, the province of Noricum, encompassing modern Salzburg…
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Saint Virgil of Salzburg
The man who built the first great Salzburg Cathedral. Virgil was an Irish-born scholar and bishop who arrived in Salzburg around 749 and spent the next 35 years transforming the city into a centre of both faith and…
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Salome Alt
The woman Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau built a palace for. Daughter of a Salzburg merchant. His companion for nearly two decades. Together they had 15 children. When he fell, she lost everything. The palace he named…
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Santino Solari
Santino Solari was the Italian architect who designed Salzburg Cathedral and Hellbrunn Palace in the early 17th century, bringing Italian Baroque architecture across the Alps and shaping the city's visual identity more…
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Seiji Ozawa
Seiji Ozawa's Salzburg relationship began when Karajan invited him to make his Salzburg Festival debut in 1966, and he returned to conduct there across the following decades. He was one of the first conductors from…
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Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalysis went public in Salzburg. In April 1908, Sigmund Freud spoke for nearly four hours without notes at the city's Hotel Bristol, before an audience that included Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, and the other…
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Sigmund Haffner the Elder
Sigmund Haffner the Elder was a wealthy Salzburg merchant and Mayor whose family gave its name to two of Mozart's major works. The Haffner Serenade (K. 250) was written for his daughter's wedding in 1776. His son…
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Sigmund Haffner the Younger
Sigmund Haffner the Younger needed a piece of music for his ennoblement in 1782. His father's old connection to the Mozart family meant that Leopold wrote to Wolfgang in Vienna and asked for a symphony, quickly. Mozart…