The last day of our Salzkammergut trip we spent in Hallstatt
The Hallstätter Beinhaus – ossuary is a building to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. Burial space was scarce in Hallstatt. The bodies were first buried in a temporary grave, then after some years the skeletal remains are removed, bleached by the sun, painted and placed in an ossuary. The greatly reduced space taken up by an ossuary means that it is possible to store the remains of many more people in a single tomb than if the original coffins were left as is.
We went to the museum, and stayed almost 2 hours but did not photograph a lot. (Photos of many exhibits in the museum can be seen on the linked page)
I want to cook Ritschert – but a vegetarian version…
Dinner
Feeding the swans with bread
Shortly after we got into town Leilani spotted swan-shaped pedal boats, we rented one and looked at Hallstatt from the water. Leilani was peddling really hard, while I took several breaks.
There is an altar for St. Barbaba.Leilani tells the story really well, I hope to get her to write it down here.
They even had a light show at the end
For 5 days we stayed at the Gasthof Sandlweber the very charming little Obersdorf. Just 10 miles away the region called Hinterbergtal (Behind-mountain-valley) is strangely different from the Ausseerland.
Gasthof Sandlweber in front of the Grimming. We couldn’t see the Grimming from our room, which is probably why we didn’t hike there (asides from the fact that we didn’t stand a chance of reaching the top)
Our room was very clean, nice and furnished with all real wood. I forgot to photograph it, except for small details.
This was the view from the bedroom. It inspired this hike
The view from the bathroom was nice too. We wondered about the little chapel on the hill and discovered it’s a pilgrimage destination, the Wallfahrtskirche Maria Kumitz
Obersdorf with our Gasthaus marked with an arrow
The Path down from the chapel
Altausseer Church
Obersdorfer Wallfahrtskirche Maria Kumitz
Barbara altar in the saltmine
Protestant church in Hallstadt
Catholic church in Hallstatt
