I could have spent an entire day here exploring every corner on the interior.\u00a0 The view from the top of the fortress is magnificent.\u00a0 The restaurant was great as well; of course there was beer, lovely ice cold beer.\u00a0 There is quite a collection of items on display inside.\u00a0 Plenty of other attraction all around the fortress as well.<\/p>\n Hohensalzburg Fortress, literally “High Salzburg Fortress” sits atop the\u00a0Festungsberg, a small hill in the\u00a0Austrian\u00a0city of\u00a0Salzburg. Erected at the behest of the\u00a0Prince-Archbishops of Salzburg\u00a0with a length of 820\u00a0ft and a width of 490\u00a0ft, it is one of the largest medieval castles in Europe.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Construction of the fortress began in 1077 under Archbishop\u00a0Gebhard von Helfenstein.\u00a0\u00a0The original design was a basic\u00a0bailey\u00a0with a wooden wall. In the\u00a0Holy Roman Empire, the archbishops of Salzburg were already powerful political figures and they expanded the fortress to protect their interests. Helfenstein’s conflict with Emperor\u00a0Henry IV\u00a0during the\u00a0Investiture Controversy\u00a0influenced the expansion of the fortress, with the Archbishop taking the side of\u00a0Pope Gregory VII\u00a0and the German anti-king\u00a0Rudolf of Rheinfelden. The fortress was gradually expanded during the following centuries. The ring walls and towers were built in 1462 under Prince-Archbishop\u00a0Burkhard II von Wei\u00dfpriach.<\/p>\n Prince-Archbishop\u00a0Leonhard von Keutschach\u00a0further expanded the fortress during his term from 1495 until 1519.\u00a0\u00a0His coadjutor\u00a0Matth\u00e4us Lang von Wellenburg, who was later to succeed Leonhard, in 1515 wrote a description of the\u00a0Reisszug, a very early and primitive\u00a0funicular railway\u00a0that provided freight access to the upper courtyard of the fortress. The line still exists, albeit in updated form, and is probably the oldest operational\u00a0railway\u00a0in the world.\u00a0The current external bastions, begun in the 16th century and completed in the 17th, were added as a precaution because of fears of Turkish Invasion.<\/p>\n <\/sup>The only time that the fortress actually came under siege was during the\u00a0German Peasants’ War\u00a0in 1525, when a group of miners, farmers and townspeople tried to oust Prince-Archbishop Matth\u00e4us Lang, but failed to take the fortress. In 1617 the deposed Archbishop\u00a0Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau\u00a0died in the fortress prison. During the\u00a0Thirty Years’ War, Archbishop Count Paris of Lodron strengthened the town’s defenses, including Hohensalzburg. He added various parts to the fortress, such as the gunpowder stores and additional gatehouses. The fortress was surrendered without a fight to\u00a0French\u00a0troops under General\u00a0Jean Victor Marie Moreau\u00a0during the Napoleonic\u00a0War of the Second Coalition\u00a0in 1800 and the last Prince-Archbishop\u00a0Count Hieronymus von Colloredo\u00a0fled to\u00a0Vienna. In the 19th century, it was used as barracks, storage depot and dungeon before being abandoned as a military outpost in 1861. ~wikipedia<\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"Salzburg\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traun-photo.com\/dan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-08-18-Germany_Austria-8324.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nHistory<\/h2>\n
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1077 – 1462<\/h2>\n
1495 – 1519<\/h2>\n
1525 – 1800<\/h2>\n
Photos in around the fortress<\/h2>\n
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