!!!Oberndorf bei Salzburg

Oberndorf bei Salzburg, province of Salzburg, market town in the 
district of Salzburg Land, alt. 401 m, pop. 4,786 (1981: pop. 
3,836), area 4.55 km%%sup 2/%, north of Salzburg on the River 
Salzach, in the Flachgau region, at the Austrian-German border. - 
District court, customs office, hospital, commercial college (HAK); 
1,489 gainfully employed persons (1991), service industry (personal, 
social and public services), meat and meat processing plant, small and 
medium-sized businesses, Oberndorf bei Salzburg printing house 
(municipality of Goeming); museum and armoury of the Guild of the 
Shipper´s Guard (Schifferschuetzengilde, established in 1278). - 
Independent town since the River Salzach became a border between 
Austria and Bavaria and detachment from the town of Laufen; from 
1900-1906 elevation of the town because of floods, at the same time 
reconstruction of the parish church. In the old church (taken down, 
1924-1936 memorial chapel) the song "Silent Night, Holy Night" sounded 
for the first time in 1818. Calvary with Maria Buehel pilgrimage 
church (1663-1677), with high altar (1722) by A. Beduzzi and 2 altar 
paintings by J. M. Rottmayr (1722); Boatmen´s Chapel. Local 
customs: Himmelbrotschutzen (on Corpus Christi blessing ceremony of 
the River Salzach commemorating the river´s importance as 
transport route for salt in the Middle Ages. A boat with a few men and 
little boys carrying a cloth with a wreath and four hosts symbolising 
the four points of the compass is blessed by the parish priest and 
then heaved into the water with the rudder blade), Pirates´ 
Battle, every 4 years (commemorating the attacks of bandits on boats 
transporting salt, simulation of an attack and rescue by the choir of 
the Guild of the Shipper´s Guard), Schifferstechen on the River 
Salzach each year in August (game of skill especially popular during 
the late Middle Ages among guild members. Standing on light boats, the 
aim of the game is to push the opponent into the water by the use of 
tilting lances or long poles).

!Literature
A. Mairoll, Aus der Landesgeschichte von Salzburg mit 
besonderer Beruecksichtigung von Oberndorf-Laufen, 1972; A. 
Stockklauser, Oberndorf, Festschrift zur 150-Jahrfeier der Gemeinde 
Oberndorf bei Salzburg 1816-1966, 1966.


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