Pferdeschwemme (Hofmarstallschwemme)

About this audio guide

This guide to the Pferdeschwemme in Salzburg pairs two things happening within months of each other in 1731 and 1732: prince-archbishop Leopold Anton von Firmian personally overseeing repairs to this horse-washing trough and stamping his coat of arms onto its new base, while his officials drove more than twenty thousand Protestant men, women and children out of the archbishopric in one of early modern Europe's largest forced religious migrations. You'll hear about the masons resetting the rearing horse-tamer statue and the painters retouching the galloping-horse frescoes even as families marched into winter exile. Look at the balustrade ringing the pool, added in that same renovation.