Gaisberg

The mountain is one of the Salzburg Hausberge, a popular recreational zone offering lovely points of view over the city and the Berchtesgaden Alps in the west. On the most astounding purpose of the mountain is the by and large observable Gaisberg Transmitter.

The mountain is one of the lower districts of the Osterhorn Group between the Lammertal valley and the Wolfgangsee; forming the eastern edge of the Salzburg Basin. The western inclinations with the Kuhberg spur extend to the Salzburg city compel, the bordering parts have a place with the neighboring Koppl and Elsbethen districts. Since 1988 a little bit of the timberland is allocated as an anchored locale. The Gaisberg has been an unmistakable objective for daytrippers from Salzburg starting at now in the eighteenth century.

From 1887 until 1928 a rack railroad, the Gaisbergbahn, gave straightforward access from the city to the most astounding purpose of the mountain until the point that the moment that it was supplanted in 1929 by a road. Today an open transport course starting from the Mirabellplatz square associations a stopping zone on the summit level, a starting stage for winter sport, climbing, mountain biking, and paragliding to the downtown region. The Gaisberg Transmitter, a 100 m 330 ft high FM and TV transmitter office arranged on its best, was brought up in 1956.