Expert suggests fountain for Salzburg’s most famous poet Georg Trakl on Waagplatz

The unadorned Waagplatz in Salzburg’s old town is to be redesigned. A connoisseur of Georg Trakl wants to see the poet immortalized there.

After Residenzplatz and Kajetanerplatz, the city is now redesigning Waagplatz and Mozartplatz. Before the architectural competition starts for the two squares in the heart of the old town, the population is invited to submit ideas by the end of March. Construction work on Waagplatz is scheduled to begin in 2024.

Hans Weichselbaum, who heads the Trakl research and memorial site in the birthplace of the Salzburg poet Georg Trakl on Waagplatz and wrote a biography about the …

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Accessed on March 11, 2022 at 11:55 am at https://www.sn.at/salzburg/kultur/experte-regt-brunnen-fuer-salzburgs-beruehmtesten-dichter-georg-trakl-auf-dem-waagplatz-an- 118306108