Von Trapp Family’s Salzburg Villa to become Hotel
Von Trapp’s “Sound of Music” Villa in Salzburg will open as a hotel in July of this year. Visitors can sleep in the original Von Trapp bedrooms or get married in the Chapel.
The von Trapp family lived in the villa outside Salzburg from 1923 to 1938 before fleeing the Nazi takeover of Austria. Nazi security chief Heinrich Himmler used the villa as a home close to the Austrian Alps until 1945.
A missionary order bought the residence after WW II and has agreed to relinquish it for use as a hotel. Entrepreneurs plan to make no alterations to the building other than essentials such as painting and rewiring.
“The hotel really is a milestone for the commercialization of The Sound Of Music for Salzburg,” said Leo Bauernberger from the Salzburg provincial tourism board. “The Sound of Music is well and truly a stroke of luck for this city.”
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