The Sound of Music Movie – Salzburg Filming Locations Locally Filmed Scenes Listed Alphabetically by Geographical Location: Mirabell Gardens (Pegasus fountain, ivy-covered walkway, classic statues at entrance, fountain, Dwarf Altstadt (Old Town) Area: garden, hopping up stairs to rose garden) In “Do Re Mi” Domhof In “I Have Confidence” & “Do Re Mi” Mozart Footbridge (crosses the Salzach River) In “Do Re Mi” song Kapitelplatz In “I Have Confidence” Pathway above Toscaninihof, toward Winkler Restaurant Nonnberg Abbey (At east end of Hohensalzburg; In “I Have Confidence” & “Do Re Mi” oldest abbey north of the Alps): Maria leaving the abbey for the von Trapp house. Von Trapp Home: (Traunstr. 34 in Aigen, just north Children come to the gate to visit Maria. of the Aigen train station) Escape scene with cars zooming past the abbey. The house where the real von Trapp’s lived is a villa in the Salzburg suburb of Aigen (southeast of the old Painted Horse Fountain (Karajam-Platz) town). The villa was deemed unsatisfactory for In “Do Re Mi” filming, and is not seen in the movie. After the von Trapp’s left, Himmler annexed it Residenzplatz & Fountain (largest baroque fountain and it became the telephone headquarters for the outside Italy) Third Reich. After the war, the von Trapp’s sold it to “I Have Confidence” buy land in Vermont. They sold it to a seminary for Nazi soldiers marching through after Anschluss the order “Brothers of the Holy Blood.” In 2010, the house was renovated as a hotel; rooms can be booked Rock Riding School (The real von Trapp family by searching for “Villa Trapp.” More information sang in a festival here) about the house is available at Herr Zeller looks for the Captain while he’s on his www.salzburg.com/wiki/index.php/Trapp-Villa honeymoon. Rolf delivers a telegram. Outside of Salzburg: The Salzburg song festival. Mellweg Mountain by Schellenberg, Germany: St. Peter’s Church “The Sounds of Music” song Opening scene Outside shot after the wedding Mondsee Cathedral (Mondsee): Interior scenes of the wedding Other Parts of Salzburg: Untersberg (Mountain 10 km SW of Salzburg): Frohnburg Palace (On Hellbrunner Allee, 2 km SE Opening scene after “Sound of Music” song. of Hohensalzburg) Final escape scene with family hiking to safety. All scenes showing the front of the von Trapp house, including pushing the car out during escape attempt. Werfen with Hohenwerfen Fortress (25 km south of Salzburg): Gazebo (Formerly in back yard at Leopoldskron; Picnic in “Do Re Mi” Now at Hellbrunn Palace, behind the wall to the left before you enter the palace grounds): Lake Wolfgang “16 going on 17” with Liesl & Rolf Anif Palace “Something Good” with Maria & Georg Hohenwerfen Castle Mondsee Leopoldskron Palace (On Leopoldskroner Allee, 1 Fuschl km SW of Hohensalzburg): St. Gilgen All back of house shots with the lake and the gazebo All are seen during opening aerial scenes. (which has been moved to Hellbrunn Palace) ************************** Compiled by Brooks Haderlie, Nov. 2003; updated June 2014. 1 Locally Filmed Locations in Order as Shown in the Movie Rolf’s Message Front of Frohnburg Palace (Rolf delivers a telegram (Chapter headings are from the DVD): to Franz the butler) Opening Flight Scenes Liesl’s Rendevous Lake Wolfgang Out back of Leopoldskron Palace to gazebo, which Anif Palace was originally located in the gardens behind the Hohenwerfen Castle Leopoldskron, near the lake. The gazebo is now Mondsee located at the Hellbrunn Palace grounds. It was only Fuschl used for the external shots. All internal dancing shots St. Gilgen were filmed in half-shell gazebos built in Hollywood. The film gazebo is locked now, after an elderly lady “The Hills are Alive“ tried hopping from bench to bench and fell and broke Filmed at Mellweg, Germany, just across the border her leg. Interestingly, the “Sixteen Going on from Salzburg. Seventeen” dance was one of the first scenes filmed for the movie, and Charmian Carr (Liesl) didn’t have Title Scenes her slip-proof shoes on for the dance, slipped and put Helicopter shots over Untersberg, into the her leg through the glass, cutting and spraining her Berchtesgaden valley with Königssee and by the ankle. She filmed the final cut of the dance with an Eagle’s Nest, then into the Lake District and back to Ace bandage on the ankle. Salzburg. Various churches, including Salzburg Cathedral “Do-Re-Mi” Hohensalzburg (This one song took six days to film because of bad weather) Abbey Tree-lined boulevard in front of Frohnburg Nonnberg Abbey (outside and courtyard only; Little Mozart bridge across the Salzach River permission was not given to film inside, so the Domplatz interiors were rebuilt and filmed in Hollywood) Painted horse fountain at Karajan-Platz Songs: Marketplace (a built set) Dixit Dominus (Psalm 110) Along banks of Salzach River Morning Hymn (Rex Admirabilis) Steam engine train up mountain (Untersberg?) Allelulia Werfen with Hohenwerfen Fortress in background Path above Toscaninihof, toward Winkler Restaurant (“Maria”) on Hohensalzburg (Nonnberg Abbey courtyard is a Hollywood set. The Riding bikes along lakeside Mother Abbess’s Quarters were filmed in Salzburg, Horse-drawn carriage in town but on a set at the Dürer Film Studios) Mirabel gardens • Pegasus fountain “I Have Confidence” • Ivy-covered walkway Leaving Nonnberg Abbey courtyard • Path above Toscaninihof, toward Winkler Restaurant, Statues at entrance to gardens with cathedral and city in background. • Fountain Walking under archway into Domplatz (The real • Dwarf from Zwerglgarten (Dwarf Garden) Maria von Trapp is the lady in the green dress with • Hopping up & down stairs to rose garden the head scarf, crossing the street in the background). Residenz Fountain in Residenzplatz. Returning from Vienna Kapitelplatz with Hohensalzburg in background Driving down tree-covered boulevard in front of (getting on bus). Frohnburg Tree-lined gravel walkway in front of Frohnburg. Klopmann Monastery (There does not seem to be any such monastery. It is not clear which building is Villa von Trapp shown briefly when this choir is heard.) Frohnburg house with front driveway & entrance (The real Maria did call the butler “Captain” when she first met him at the door.) All interiors were rebuilt and filmed in Hollywood. Compiled by Brooks Haderlie, Nov. 2003; updated June 2014. 2 Baroness Schraeder Leaving the Villa Leopoldskron: Back of house & lake Frohnburg: Pushing the car out of the driveway and Children rowing up to back of house (Gretl nearly meeting Herr Zeller & gang drowned when the boats turned over, since she couldn’t swim.) Salzburg Folk Festival Rock Riding School: The entire festival (These The Party scenes were very difficult to light, requiring (Dancing in the house and in the garden outside the generators from all over Europe, and it was very house is a Hollywood set) cold) A New Mother “They’re Gone!” Leopoldskron: Tossing ball with Baroness Schraeder Nonnberg Abbey: Zeller’s men pull up to front of & drinking lemonade on terrace, singing a sad “The abbey, looking for von Trapps. Interior shots are Hills are Alive” Hollywood sets, including the cemetery. Children Visit the Abbey Discovered by Rolf Nonnberg Abbey: Children at gate and in courtyard, Nonnberg Abbey: Cars racing down hill past the gate trying to see Maria to the abbey & disabled Nazi cars trying to start My Favorite Things Reprise Escape from Salzburg Leopoldskron: Georg trying to find out where Untersberg: Family hiking on trail to escape (The real children had been, then Maria comes and they sing von Trapps crossed over the Alps into Italy – “My Favorite Things” ostensibly to go mountain climbing, even though Maria was pregnant with her third child by this time The Baroness Departs – then they traveled to England, and took a ship to Leopoldskron: Georg on balcony, watching Maria; America. When their travel visas ran out, they were Baroness talks and leaves forced to return to Europe, but then were able to come back and purchase a farm in Vermont. To book Maria and the Captain a week at their lodge, go to www.trappfamily.com ) Leopoldskron: Gazebo; Maria and Georg talk, sing “Something Good,” kiss Guide books and tour groups will say that the Wedding Bells “Maria” song was filmed in Nonnberg, and the scene (Preparing Maria is actually a Hollywood set) with the family hiding in the cemetery was filmed in St. Peter’s shown briefly from the outside St. Peter’s cemetery. However, both were carefully (The altar with the gateway is also a set) re-created Hollywood sets. Mondsee Cathedral: After Maria passes the gate, all interior shots are here. This is the only interior shot in The one definitive source for information about the whole movie which was not filmed at a movie the movie was used for most of this information: studio. “The Sound of Music: The Making of America’s Zoom out to St. Peter’s exterior & Salzburg old city. Favorite Movie” by Julia Antopol Hirsch. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1993. Anschluss Residenzplatz: Nazi soldiers marching & cars driving Rock Riding School: Herr Zeller looks for the Maps showing all of the in-town locations can be Captain found at: Telegram from Berlin http://www.salzburg.info/en/sights Rock Riding School: Rolf delivers telegram outside http://www.biega.com/salzburg.html the festival house Flag of the Third Reich Frohnburg Palace: Georg tears down the flag and he and Maria greet the children after their honeymoon. Compiled by Brooks Haderlie, Nov. 2003; updated June 2014. 3 .