The story of this place
Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau built this palace in 1606 for his beloved mistress Salome Alt, with whom he had fifteen children—a scandal that eventually cost him his office and left him to die imprisoned in the fortress above. Rebuilt after a 1818 fire, the Marble Hall became one of the world's most beautiful wedding venues, where Mozart's family once performed. The geometric Baroque gardens, laid out in 1690, gained worldwide fame in 1965 when Julie Andrews and the von Trapp children danced around the Pegasus fountain singing Do-Re-Mi in The Sound of Music.