Stille Nacht Museum

Salzburg & Salzburgerland


Hallein’s festive claim to fame is as the one-time home of Franz Xaver Gruber (1787–1863), who composed the carol Stille Nacht (Silent Night). Joseph Mohr penned the poem and Gruber, a schoolteacher at the time, came up with the melody on his guitar in 1818. The fabled guitar takes pride of place in Gruber’s former residence, now the Stille Nacht Museum, next to Hallein’s parish church. The museum tells the story of the carol through documents and personal belongings.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Salzburg & Salzburgerland attractions

1. Keltenmuseum

0.2 MILES

Overlooking the Salzach, the glass-fronted Keltenmuseum runs chronologically through the region's heritage in a series of beautiful vaulted rooms. It…

2. Salzwelten

0.95 MILES

During Salzburg’s princely heyday, the sale of salt filled its coffers. Today, at Austria’s biggest show mine, you can slip into a boiler suit and descend…

3. Dokumentation Obersalzberg

4.17 MILES

In 1933 the tranquil Alpine settlement of Obersalzberg (3km from Berchtesgaden) in essence became the second seat of Nazi power after Berlin, a dark…

4. Salzbergwerk

4.56 MILES

Once a major producer of ‘white gold’, Berchtesgaden has thrown open its salt mines for fun-filled 1½-hour tours. Kids especially love donning miners’…

5. Untersberg

4.99 MILES

Rising above Salzburg and straddling the German border is the rugged 1853m peak of Untersberg. Spectacular views of the city, the Rositten Valley and the…

6. Eagle's Nest

5.32 MILES

At 1834m above sea level, the Eagle's Nest was built as a mountaintop retreat for Hitler, and gifted to him on his 50th birthday. It took around 3000…

7. Salzburg Zoo

5.42 MILES

Kids can come face to face with lions, flamingos and alpine ibex at the Salzburg Zoo, near Schloss Hellbrunn at the foot of Hellbrunn's cliffs. The zoo is…

8. Schloss Hellbrunn

5.8 MILES

A prince-archbishop with a wicked sense of humour, Markus Sittikus, built Schloss Hellbrunn in the early 17th century as a summer palace and an escape…

  • placement: superzone
  • path: Destinations/POIs/superzone
  • possible size: [970, 250], [970, 90], [728, 90], [1, 1],
  • targeting:
    {
      "url": "austria/salzburg/hallein/attractions/stille-nacht-museum/a/poi-sig/1228038/358608",
      "destination": "Salzburg-&-Salzburgerland",
      "continent": "Europe",
      "country": "Austria",
      "region": "Salzburg-&-Salzburgerland",
      "position": "superzone"
    }