{"id":545557,"date":"2021-10-06T15:06:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T13:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salzburgerland.com\/en\/?p=545557"},"modified":"2021-11-10T14:17:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T13:17:43","slug":"mariapfarr-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salzburgerland.com\/en\/mariapfarr-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariapfarr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mariapfarr, back in the day<\/h2>\n

It was autumn of 1815 when the 23-year-old Joseph Mohr took up his first position in Salzburg following his premature priestly ordination. He became an assistant priest in Mariapfarr in Salzburg\u2019s Lungau region and thus returned to his roots. Joseph Mohr\u2019s ancestors on his father\u2019s side had resided in Lungau since the 17th century.<\/p>\n

The population in SalzburgerLand and in the remote Lungau region had gone through difficult times. Salzburg had become a bleak and hopeless place: Since the year 1803, it had gone through five changes in rulers. Having risen from a clerical archbishopric to an electorate, it fell to Austria in 1806, three years later to France and in 1810 to Bavaria. Only in the spring of 1816, the long period of insecurity, war and violence was coming to an end: On 1 May 1816, Salzburg was finally handed over back to Austria. Hunger and poverty were dominating the social landscape. The year 1815 made it into the history books as the \u201cYear Without a Summer\u201d. A volcano had erupted in Indonesia in April 1815 and the enormous eruption negatively influenced the climates of many parts of the world for several years. Rain, cold and bad weather led to countless crop failures. In 1816, grain prices soared by 150 per cent in just a few months!<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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