Must-SeeSalzburg
About 18 miles away
Mozart's baroque birthplace, and the setting of The Sound of Music.
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St. Bartholomä
A pilgrimage church with red onion domes on a peninsula of the Königssee, below the Watzmann's east face.
- Open
- From spring to autumn
- Price
- Free; paid for the boat
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- St. Bartholomä, KönigsseeDirections
- Getting There
- About 35 minutes by boat from Schönau.
Why Go
The baroque church, with its trefoil of red domes, stands on a meadow reached only by boat or on foot over the mountains. The old royal hunting lodge beside it is now an inn, and paths lead to the Ice Chapel, a snowfield at the foot of the Watzmann.
Nearby in Berchtesgaden
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