The von Trapp Villa Viewpoint - Leopoldskron & Frohnburg
The famous von Trapp mansion was never one house but two, both hidden to the south and both off limits to visitors. From this quiet viewpoint you can gaze toward them and finally separate the Hollywood home from the real family who fled Salzburg.
Sobre este lugar
The grand lakeside villa of the film does not exist. To create it, the filmmakers stitched together two very different buildings, both lying south of the old town and neither open to the public. Away to the south west sits Schloss Leopoldskron, a honey coloured rococo palace on its own mirror still pond, built in 1736 for Prince Archbishop Leopold Anton von Firmian, whose lake, terrace and Venetian room gave the movie the back of the house and the model for its ballroom. Due south stands the sterner seventeenth century Frohnburg, on the long Hellbrunner avenue, whose front gate and facade became the entrance the captain's children march through. This is also the place to lay the film's biggest myth to rest. The real von Trapps did not climb over the mountains to safety, a route that would have led them straight into Nazi Germany. In 1938 they simply took a train.
Datos clave
- 1736 year — Schloss Leopoldskron was built for Prince Archbishop Leopold Anton von Firmian
- 2 palaces — Two separate buildings, Leopoldskron and Frohnburg, played the single screen villa
- 1938 year — The real family escaped quietly by train to Italy, not over the alps