Sankt Gilgen is a municipality in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung (Flachgau), in the Salzkammergut region of Austria. The municipality is located in the judicial district of Thalgau, and has become known as a summer resort.
Culture and sights
St. Ägydius parish church in Sankt Gilgen
Pilgrimage church to U. L. Frau and St. Wolfgang at Falkenstein near Winkl and Ried, with Stations of the Cross
Castle Hüttenstein at the Krotensee (private)
Village center of Sankt Gilgen with old buildings
Brunnwinkl, small hamlet with completely preserved rural village (place of work of bee researcher Karl von Frisch)
various summer resort villas on the Wolfgangsee and Attersee lakes (Unterburgau), including Frauenstein and Ferienhort in Ried
forester's lodge in Oberburgau
wayside shrines on islands: Ochsenkreuz and Hochzeitskreuz in Wolfgangsee near Winkl-Fürberg
Cultural facilities:
Mozarthaus in Sankt Gilgen: former district court, home of the mother (Anna Maria and the sister Nannerl)
Kulturhaus in Sankt Gilgen: previously elementary school, with museum of musical instruments and museum Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie
Museum of local history in Sankt Gilgen: previously side corridor house of the Wetzl estate
European monastery Gut Aich in Winkl
Natural formations and lookouts:
Wolfgangseeblick in Pöllach (lookout point, protected landscape area)
Plombergstein above Sankt Gilgen (lookout point)
Stone crags at Plombergstein in Plomberg (natural monument)
Promenade path Brunnwinkl-Fürberg at the lake at Saurüssel
Falkensteinwand between Winkl and Ried, with church and Stations of the Cross, viewpoints Scheffelblick and Aberseeblick (protected landscape area)
Weißwand at Zwölferhorn above Sankt Gilgen (viewpoint, hiking trail, inn)
Zwölferhorn above Sankt Gilgen with Sausteigalm (lookout mountain, cable car, mountain inns)
Schafberg above Wolfgang-, Mond- and Attersee, with Schafbergalm (lookout mountain, rack railroad, mountain hotel and mountain inns)
Burggrabenklamm gorge in Unterburgau (gorge trail, natural monument)
Eibensee, mountain lake above Fuschl (natural monument)
Eisenau, alpine meadow on the Schafberg in Oberburgau (forest path, mountain inn and hut)
Suissensee and Mittersee, mountain lakes on Schafberg (hiking trail)
Himmelspforte on the Schafberg (wall with hiking trail)
These accommodations are examples of hosts who receive direct enquiries from holiday guests.
