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Facts about Salzburg

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American troops entered Salzburg on May 5, 1945.

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The Salzburg soccer team SV Austria Salzburg reached the UEFA Cup final in 1994.

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Salzburg was a candidate city for 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

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A smaller Salzburg Easter Festival is held around Easter each year.

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On January 24, 2005, Salzburg was once again selected by the Austrian Olympic Committee as their applicant city for the 2014 Winter Olympics.

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The energetic Archbishop Leonhard von Keutschach (1495-1519) rebuilt the Hohensalzburg into the form in which we see it today.

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The Europrix multimedia award takes place in Salzburg.

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Finally, in 1732, King Frederick William I of Prussia accepted 12,000 Salzburger Protestant emigrants, who settled in areas of East Prussia that had been devastated by the plague 20 years before.

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On March 13, 1938, during the Anschluss, German troops occupied Salzburg; political opponents and Jewish citizens were subsequently arrested, and the synagogue was destroyed.

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The name Salzburg literally means "Salt Castle," and derives its name from the barges carrying salt on the Salzach River.

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From 1772 to 1803, under archbishop Hieronymus von Colloredo, Salzburg was a center of late Illuminism.

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Salzburg’s third great period of artistic creation, the Baroque age, began in the reign of Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau (1578-1612).

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Salzburg is only two hours from Munich and one hour from Vienna by train.

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Salzburg lies on the banks of the Salzach river, at the northern boundary of the Alps.

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During World War II, the KZ Salzburg-Maxglan concentration camp was located here.

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Salzburg is a tourist favorite, with the number of tourists outnumbering locals by a large margin in peak times.

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In 1756, the most famous Austrian, Mozart, was born in Salzburg.

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Cattle, sheep, furniture, and land all had to be dumped on the market, and the Salzburgers received little money from the well-to-do Catholic allies of Von Firmian.

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Salzburg is also a student city, with three universities.

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Other German-speaking families—mostly Swiss Germans, Palatines, and Swabians—also joined the Salzburgers at Ebenezer.

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The Altstadt, or "old town," is dominated by its baroque towers and churches and the massive Festung Hohensalzburg.

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The movie was based on the true story of Maria von Trapp, a Salzburg-based nun who took up with an aristocratic family and fled German occupation.

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Salzburg was the center of the American-occupied area in Austria.

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The Baroque architecture of Salzburg's "Old Town" represents one of the best-preserved city centers in the German-speaking world, and was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.

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On March 12, 1734, a small group of about 60 exiles from Salzburg who had traveled to London arrived in the British American colony of Georgia seeking religious freedom.

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The first establishment of Salzburg was the Benedictine monastery of St. Peters.

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On April 6, 2005 Red Bull bought the club and changed the name into FC Red Bull Salzburg.

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Salzburg is expected to try through at least the 2022 Games in order to win a bid.

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The face of the modern Salzburg, dominated by the Baroque majesty of the old town, was created in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born and raised in Salzburg, for whose archbishops he worked from 1769 to 1781.

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After 1816, Salzburg became part of the Habsburg Empire.

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Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population of 150,000 and is the capital of the federal state of Salzburg.

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Salzburg’s third great period of artistic creation, the Baroque age, began in the reign of Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau (1578-1612).

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Salzburg Airport has scheduled flights to European cities such as Frankfurt, Vienna, London, Amsterdam, and Zьrich, as well as Dublin and Charleroi.

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Goethe wrote the poem Hermann and Dorothea about the Salzburg exiles' march.

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The mountains to Salzburg's south contrast with the rolling plains to the north.

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Salzburg also has an S-Bahn system with four Lines (S1, S2, S3, S11); trains depart from the main station every 30 minutes.

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More than 4,500 cultural events take place every year in Salzburg, including the world-famous Salzburg Festival, making the city one of the most important cultural centers of Europe.

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The Salzburg Festival is a world-famous music festival that attracts visitors during the months of July and August each year.

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The first establishment of Salzburg was the Benedictine monastery of St. Peters.

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The stadium of Red Bull Salzburg is the Wals Siezenheim Stadium and will be one of the venues for the 2008 European Football Championship.

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Salzburg is approximately 93 miles east of Munich, Germany, and 186 miles west of Vienna.

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In 1278, the archbishops of Salzburg became princes of the Holy Roman Empire and wielded their power with extreme intolerance.

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Rupert named the city "Salzburg," and then left to evangelize among the pagans.

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Of the 12 buildings in and around Salzburg for which Fischer von Erlach was responsible, the Kollegienkirche is particularly notable, ranking as one of the outstanding achievements of all Baroque architecture.