Mondsee: Wredeplatz - Basilika St. Michael
Built around a Benedictine monastery founded in 748, Mondsee grew into a market town on Lake Mondsee in Austria’s Salzkammergut. Its former abbey church, the Basilica of St Michael, was completed in 1497 as a late-Gothic building; its twin-towered façade was later reshaped in the Baroque period. The church faces Wredeplatz, the broad paved square at the centre of town. Although the monastery was dissolved in 1791, its buildings still organise the historic core. The basilica reached international audiences as the setting for the wedding scene in The Sound of Music. Lake Mondsee lies below the wooded slopes of Mondseeberg and Drachenwand, in the foothills east of Salzburg.
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Lake Mondsee defines the setting of Mondsee — its broad waters and the steep face of the Drachenwand shape life in this Salzkammergut market town. The lake is one of Upper Austria’s celebrated lakes, with a compact centre set close to its northern shore. Mondsee Abbey, founded in the eighth century, remains the town’s central architectural landmark; its former collegiate church, the Basilica of St Michael, is known internationally as the wedding location in The Sound of Music. The surrounding area also links Mondsee to the wider chain of lakes and mountains of the Salzkammergut. View additional webcams nearby to better understand how Mondsee relates to the Salzkammergut landscape.
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