Driving Getreidegasse Salzburg, Austria

Driving Around Getreidegasse Salzburg, Austria
Starting from Salzburg University on Hofstallgasse onto the Münzgasse turning right onto Griesgasse stopping at the Makartsteg and left onto Franz-Josef-Kai then left on Museumsplatz / Gstättengasse then turning right into the Sigmundstor Then Back through Historic Downtown and leaving on Rudolfskai
About Getreidegasse: Griesgasse Area

The Griesgasse is a lane in the Altstadt (Old Town) of Salzburg. It has seen quite a lot of history and has been at the heart of Salzburg for millennia. The name means "semolina lane", which is misleading - the term "Gries" was also used for rubble that was deposited by the Salzach River at its banks. Thus the name. "Lane" is an understatement, since it is rather wide and in fact a proper street. It ran parallel to the city walls and links the Anton-Neumayr-Platz and Gstättengasse with the Staatsbrücke bridge.

Until into the 17th century, this area was frequently flooded and used for orchards, gardens and meadows. Only with the "urban development program" of Prince Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, flood protection measures were taken and the Griesgasse was laid out.

Touring the Griesgasse

At the Münzgasse / Anton-Neumayr-Platz part of the Griesgasse, you are standing in area that was once occupied by the Türnitz - then the oldest army barracks in the world. The barracks were demolished in the 1860ies, when building material was needed for the river training structures. At Griesgasse 37, the city′s pump house was built in 1548; its pump supplied the city with drinking water and was powered by the Almkanal. After 1800, it was powered by a steam engine. In 1944, this "Brunnhaus" was destroyed in the course of WWII bombings.

The city walls had a gate that was often used to take cattle which was kept within the city to drink water at the shore of the Salzach. The gate was called Wassertor, Griestor or Fleischertor. The houses of Griesgasse 1, 3, 5 and 7 originate in the 16th and 17th century. House number 7 was a bathhouse since the Middle Ages; it could be tracked back to the 14th century, but was probably even older. It closed only in the 20th century.

The house in Griesgasse 8 has a plate with an inscription referring to the local mason family of the Dopplers, of whom the physicist Christian Doppler was the most famous member. The house of Griesgasse 11 is still containing parts of the old city walls including a small guard tower which is still quite visible once you know what you are looking for. House number 15 once contained a home for poor and old people; house number 21 was the city′s main blacksmith ("Stadtschmiede").
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About Sigmundstor: ( The 131 metre long, 13 metre wide Siegmundstor tunnel is one of the most amazing feats of 18th civil century engineering. The tunnel, constructed between 1764 and 1766, connects the Old Town with the Riedenburg quarter through the Mönchsberg and is one of Salzburg's most important arterial routes. The tunnel's was opened by Sigismund von Schrattenbach by driving a six-horse carriage through it. The entrance to the tunnel is notable for its Baroque ornamentation by the brothers Johann and Wolfgang Hagenauer.


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