Bürgergarde Salzburg

18th-21st century

The Bürgergarde is Salzburg's ceremonial civic guard, marching in uniforms copied from mid-18th-century originals and turning out, some of them on horseback, for the city's old civic and religious set-pieces: the opening of the Rupertikirtag fairground festival, the start of the Salzburg Festival, the Georgi-Ritt in spring, and the Martini celebration in