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Experiencing history

Special tours are available for school classes and children's/youth groups as part of the educational museum program to give children and youths more insight into life in the Middle Ages.


5. Castles in the literature
    of the Middle Ages

(including program "Men and walls")

Castles are mentioned and described in different epic breadth in Wolfram von Eschenbach's most significant medieval writings such as the "Nibelungenlied" and "Parzival". This educational program "compares" the literary description of castles with real life as an introduction to the Middle High German epic (and lyric poetry).

Length  120 minutes
Age group  from 5th grade
Price

 €  6,10

6. Guided tour of the
    interior rooms of the fortress

This tour focuses on the history of the Fortress using models as examples. For children from 6-15 years. Visit the torture chamber featuring medieval torture instruments, climb up to the Reck Tower – explanation of the view, walk along the battlements to the "Salzburg Bull" (barrel organ) and the medieval state rooms. The history of the fortress is recounted on this guided tour.

Length  45 minutes
Age group  from 1st grade
Price

 € 3,00

Information and registration

Program 1-5
Program 6
Dr. Siegrid Schmidt
Tel. and Fax: ++43(0)662/831645
Mornings: ++43(0)662/8044-4393
e-Mail: siegrid.schmidt@sbg.ac.at		 Festung Hohensalzburg
Mr. Christian Elsigan
Tel.: ++43(0)662/842430-11
Fax: ++43(0)662/842430-20
e-Mail: festung@salzburg.gv.at

Educational museum program

Special guided tours for school classes, kids and youth groups:



1. Men and walls
2. The fortress residents and their spare time
3. A princely banquet and a servant’s fare
4. Stories still told today
5. Castles in the literature of the Middle Ages
6. Guided tour of the interior rooms of the fortress

Folder educational museum program

 
Educational museum program (PDF),
German only