Altstadt Salzburg

This guide to Altstadt Salzburg's old town square starts with Justitia, the blindfolded statue that has watched the Alter Markt since sixteen sixteen, marking the Old Town Hall as the seat of judgment for the whole prince-archbishopric. It follows how the square doubled as marketplace and courtroom, with a pillory beside the bread stalls, before turning to a witch hunt that began in sixteen seventy-five when a beggar woman named Barbara Kollerin was tortured into naming her own son, Paul Jacob Koller, as a sorcerer who was never caught. Investigators built an entire phantom conspiracy around a man nobody could find, using his name to justify hunting the poorest people in the city. Notice how ordinary the square looks today, still lined with market stalls and gilded shop signs.