After crossing the river, and then across the street, into the city gates, the previous bridge over the river on the wide-open mood, the pleasure of capturing the beauty of the moment, immediately turned into a kind of childish amazement. Instantly in a crowded and narrow like a line of ancient streets, inside the pedestrians rubbing shoulders and shoulders, stores on both sides of the storefront antique, all kinds of faces, all kinds of signboards, windows of all kinds of fine jewelry, food , or seen or not seen, Linlin total, people's eyes overwhelmed, dazzled, the person as if coming to the fairy tale world of the market, the feeling that in addition to the downtown bustle, there is also the pleasure of capturing the beautiful scenery, this time immediately turned into a child's surprise. Feeling in addition to the bustle of downtown, there are some hard to say the cozy. Back in time, time travel? Standing in the grain street, the Salchahe River's turbulence and indifference this time has disappeared.
5, Grain Street
Salzburg's Grain Street is world famous. The street is narrow but neat and clean, the stores are small but well-stocked, and the facades are not luxurious but painstakingly decorated. What's most striking about them is the signage: it's all artfully designed, with tradition and culture playing off each other, and the shapes are straightforward, elegant, humorous, and needn't be written on, no matter where you're from, what language you speak, or what you're looking for, you'll find a store here.
On both sides of the high-rise like a dangerous house have hundreds of years of history, some really have been crooked, belonging to the dangerous house, was reinforced very much, involved in the idea of demolition is not an easy thing, but is the fate of sooner or later, but it is said that here, the old house is a cultural relics, are only allowed to repair, are not allowed to dismantle. Regardless of how the end will be, right now is also a convenient way. But, although "show some of the light of the next world," but looks subtle and solemn, and was painted colorful, old through the new wave . In early summer, on the narrow streets, in front of the windows of each house, large pots and small pots, flowers and plants, with the same tourists are not willing to be lonely to chase the prosperity of the old market has added a few points of enchantment.
Walking in Grain Street, you can not miss a person: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . Right in the middle of the ever-busy Grain Street, Building Nine, a classical residential building in medium yellow, pulled a few big red banners from the windows of the fifth floor, announcing to the world: Mozart's home is here. Mozart's spirit, I'm afraid that this scene will also laugh.
From the sixteenth century, throughout the era of Baroque tyranny, every citizen of Salzburg lived under the patronage of the Archbishop of Salzburg, and this remained the tradition until the mid-eighteenth century, when the musical genius Mozart was born. His father, Mozart Sr. came from Augsburg, Germany, a poor college student, but played the violin so well that he joined the orchestra of the Archbishop, began to have a successful career, and then got married and started a family in Salzburg, and then in 1756, his youngest son, Mozart, was born, and a period of myths in the history of music began, which still brings endless musical enjoyment to human beings today. But at that time, this musical prodigy, although repeatedly brought the world a surprise - learning the piano at the age of four, the age of five, composition, at the age of thirteen is already a member of the Bologna Philharmonic Society (the most authoritative music organization in the eighteenth century), at the age of sixteen to become the archbishop of the orchestra's chief organist , a lifetime of composition of twenty Opera, more than sixty symphonies, thirty-two concertos, forty-one piano sonatas ......*** more than six hundred works, but still not immune to the tyranny of the Lord Bishop, had to leave Salzburg, to Vienna, and finally died away from home.
Fifty years after Mozart's death, the businessmen of Salzburg realized that this musical genius had potentially unlimited business opportunities, first of all, they erected a monument to this great son, which today stands above the old square. By the way, in those days, at the Café Tomaselli in the old square, Mozart, a young boy who had just finished performing his music, with his freshly paid salary in his pocket, went in headlong, not for the love of coffee, but to gamble, and often half of his paycheck was already gambled away there on the same day. Little things like this used to break the heart of old Mozart, Wolfgang's dad.
The unlimited potential of the name Mozart, in the age of capitalism has become a myriad of trademarked symbols , such as Mozart chocolate balls, Mozart chocolate wine, Mozart coffee, Mozart ...... At the same time, the cultural effects of the name of Mozart into a never digging The name of Mozart has become a gold mine that can never be dug up. The people of Salzburg started with Mozart, and today there are Mozart festivals, Mozart music festivals, and so on.
Grain Street, No. 9 of the 18th century, five-story residence, the third floor has been set up as a museum, which can see a lot of things, but the most moving is the child Mozart's bunch of flaxen hair, soft and delicate; and he wore a gown, used a musical instrument. The cradle in which Mozart is said to have slept is also original. He was baptized in Salzburg Cathedral, the largest and most beautiful Baroque church in northern Europe, and it was in the nave of the church, over the baptismal font topped by a bronze lion, that this unprecedented musical genius received his first look from the world. He must have loved this solemn, musically inspiring building, too, but because the freedom the artist craved was constrained by the rules of his bishopric, he chose to leave and go to Vienna, where, after ten years of indulgence and vigorous composition, he departed from the earthly realm of his passion.
Today, Mozarteum Square, Mozarteum Steps, Mozarteum Music Week, Mozarteum Festival, Mozarteum Chocolate, Mozarteum Dessert Wine, that sort of thing, is everywhere in Austria, not just in Salzburg.
When talking about Salzburg today, it is necessary to talk about one person. It is the second half of the sixteenth century, Salzburg experienced the man of the hour, Cardinal Wolf Dietrich von Attenau. This man was a great aristocrat, intelligent and decisive, bold and courageous, and at the age of 28 had already become the head of state of Salzburg, a typical Renaissance man - learned, brilliant, humanist spirit, but also several times more ambitious than ordinary people and the will to power, and the physical implementation of the power in the hands of the time The realization of ideals in a dictatorial way, through and through, to the very end. Today's Old Town of Salzburg, can be said to be from his idea, the construction of the cathedral, the expansion of the cathedral square, remodeling of the archbishop's palace and the cathedral around the street plaza, and finally, on the other side of the Salzach River for the lover of the Salome built the garden palace - Mirabelle Palace, for the Old Town of Salzburg chest don't wear a beautiful delicate brooch. a beautiful and delicate brooch.
It was Bishop Attenau's dream and ambition to transform the small, crowded medieval city of Salzburg into the "German Rome" and even the "Vatican north of the Alps"! There was little flat land in the city, so he tried to demolish the houses - more than sixty of them! When there was no money to build churches, he used the pretext of the separation of the old and new churches to drive away Protestant citizens and then embezzled their property - more than once! The renovation of the cathedral resulted in the construction of a new cathedral, a church square and a bishop's palace, in the strictest artistic style in the spirit of the Baroque, and finally the city of Salzburg has become what it is today, a typical small city with a big atmosphere, which is becoming more and more popular as a fragrance.
Salzburg Cathedral, the most brilliant Baroque buildings north of the Alps, as if a piece of heavenly music solidified on earth, structural modeling, inside and outside makeup, extremely full of all the solutions of the Baroque ; majesty and solemnity, magnificent, the superiority of the religious embodiment of nothing more. Front wall is divided into three, symbolizing the Catholic Trinity, at the same time by three ancient Greek columns to support the wall, Dorian, Ionian and Corinthian; both sides of the bell tower, such as the two big King Kong stands, towering guardian of the temple. The bell tower is divided into four floors, topped with two bronze bells and two clocks in the center, which correspond to the four apostles in front of the main gate, summoning the lambs of the world and warning of the shortness of life. The most exquisite or the church's large bronze doors, the middle of the two above the reliefs full of mysterious meaning, is a summary of life: first surrounded by angels, the soul to obtain a person will be born into the world, God's big hand to the sun for the soul of the person into the soul, followed by a mother's care of the new life, and finally the person grows up and enters the crowd Social ...... <
The Western religious interpretation of life alludes to the ancient Chinese concept of the soul, where the essence comes from the sky and the flesh from the earth.
Today, when the Salzburg Festival opens, the front of the cathedral serves as the backdrop, the square in front serves as the stage and auditorium, and during the summer festivals, theater, song, and dance, the crowds are overwhelming.
Salzburg, as a city, is a classic representative of the Baroque art style; Lord Bishop of Attenau, as a representative of the spirit of the Baroque, is the typical of the typical . The bishops invented the culture and art industry, which in turn formed a brilliant tradition, and today Salzburg, culture, business, fame and fortune. History is full of contradictions, wonderful and hopeless facts.
Salzburg's hilltop castle is the best preserved medieval fortified castle in Central Europe. It was built in the eleventh century and finally completed in the seventeenth century, during which time it was enlarged several times, and consolidation of the repairs was the task of almost every archbishop. The Middle Ages to the early modern period was a season of frequent warfare in Europe, and Central Europe was like a big battlefield, where emperors fought with popes, nobles fought with peasants, and aristocrats fought with nobles for two things: power and influence, and land and resources. In the Middle Ages, the most common form of warfare was the siege of the city, the siege of the city to the exhaustion of food and surrender, or outside the city of the aggressor exhaustion of food and retreat, a war even if the end. The function of the castle was to provide a place of refuge for the inhabitants in times of war. Salzburg's hilltop castle, when the equipment savings are sufficient, can be used for 10,000 people to eat and live on it for half a year, the invasion of the enemy will be because of the emptiness of the belly, the siege of the city lost confidence in the victory, and scavenge a little bit of left inside the city of the belongings on the retreat.
There are many rooms in the castle, but the only ones worth looking at are a few of the Lord Bishop's rooms, the luxury of scarcity, the secular embodiment of the medieval Gothic spirit. Church is also a work of art, the most precious is the organ, known as the "Salzburg Bull", the sound is loud, said to be related to a cow. The story is like this, once in a foreign invasion, the castle above the exhaustion of food, the last remaining cow, kill the cow naturally can not solve the problem of survival, a citizen in a hurry, will be a cow a day to paint a color, to take to the city walls to walk, to the enemy to see, one day is black and white cow, another day and became a yellow cow, and then a day even became a yellow and white cow, which actually than the defense of the artillery is also useful, the enemy looked at the castle on the The enemy saw so many cows walking around on the castle, food and grass is absolutely sufficient, they withdrew their troops and went home.
The Palace of the Magic Fountain, pronounced Herrbrunn Palace, meaning Palace of the Bright Springs, in the south of the city of Salzburg in the corner of the scenic meandering, is an archbishop imitating the Italian villa built in the seventeenth century Palace of pleasure, only for a day's fun, not to live. On a fine summer's day, the bishop invited his friends, men and women, on horseback or in a carriage, and the party came from the city to have a good time, played in the water, and probably got all wet, and then returned to have a good time, which is the whole purpose of this palace.
The whole magic fountain system is nearly four hundred years ago, complex and wonderful project, wonderful and exquisite, still operating today, can not be said that it is not a miracle, and all with natural water power , milling and iron, building and repairing the wall, theater and dance, and a variety of magic and illusion of the scene, Lin Lin, all kinds of things, the guests to appreciate the hydraulics! After the mystery of hydraulics, but also a feast for the eyes, or into the soup, but in the end are happy. The bishop is the bishop, the mind is slightly higher!
Fountain Palace of the "big table", from a block of stone chiseled rectangular table, carved out of the middle of a long, thin square groove, the spring bubbles surging surplus, is for the summer wine bottles cool; rectangular table surrounded by ten solid rectangular benches, but also by the stone carving. The scene seemed very welcoming, as if the bishop had invited the guests to take their seats as soon as possible, so that they could drink the cooled wine from the trough. But the guests just seated, suddenly, only feel a cool, gushing spring under the buttocks, such as shooting, the water is also fierce, "ah ah" has not yet called out, silk brocade skirt pants wet a large area, and with the laughter of a large area, the only bishop on the seat of the Lord dry as the beginning of the Lord, and said leisurely: "very not matter. Drink first. Then you can go home." Is it not mischievous to make fun of a guest in such a way, in such an unpretentious manner? But there is no denying that His Grace's game is subtle, sophisticated and expensive, a lavish game accompanied by complex science and technology, somewhat like the ancient Chinese treatment of gunpowder invention, fireworks and firecrackers have been played for many years, but the invention of artillery is just not thought of. The Lord Bishop just for the summer fun, spent a lot of tax money is not false, to the future generations left behind the history and technology, but money is difficult to measure the wisdom of mankind.
Western grown-ups have money, do also atmosphere, always trying to find ways to make themselves look grand, or with science, or rely on art, show off their superior spiritual and cultural standards , just like the Lord Bishop of Saltzburg, although the people have gone for hundreds of years, that the silver turned into a magic fountain, and until today, as in that year, the guests of the Fountain Palace, the cool people will laugh, and the guests of the Fountain Palace. The cool people will laugh, not laugh enough to solve the ridicule, and bystanders also laugh, not laugh enough to cover the embarrassment of gloating. Who said science and technology is serious, science can also bring laughter, but also long.
A trip to Salzburg, of course, you can see far more than these, but in just one day, to be able to walk around, Salzburg has undoubtedly left a deep impression, but also memories of miles. In retrospect, Salzburg, worthy of the Alps a wonder.