6 July 2015, 9:58 am: The Pferdeschwemme was a bath for horses in the early 18th century.You’d only associate it with horses nowadays because of the equine frescoes surrounding it and the big horse statue at the center.
Locals know it mostly as a fancy concrete pond into which kids like to throw coins. SOUND OF MUSIC obsessives
know it as one of the fountains around which Maria and the younguns caterwaul.
Yeah, a Nazi prick in training shows up here, too. Liesl deserves so much better.
He is cocky going on a**hole. (That’s funnier if you sing it.)
The bath sits against the face of the Monchsberg mountain on Herbert von Karajan Square, named for the Berlin Philharmonic’s principal conductor of 35 years, a Salzburg native who is arguably the top-selling classical music recording artist of all time.
The horse pond and its colorful murals were designed in 1693, around
the time the archbishop erected new royal stables next to the square.
