Old City Hall

This guide to Salzburg's Old City Hall centers on Barbara Kollerin, who climbed these steps in August 1675 to answer charges of theft and sorcery in what then served as the city's court. It follows how her forced confession implicated her own son, Jakob Koller, known as Zauberer Jackl, and how investigators unable to catch him turned instead on the beggar children and teenagers he supposedly led. Above the doorway behind you stands a stone Justitia, added decades before Kollerin's arrest to promise a fairness these rooms did not deliver.