St. Gilgen

• Name — Sankt Gilgen • Native Name — Sankt Gieng • Settlement Type — Municipality • Image Skyline — Sankt gilgen 2018 1.jpg • Image Shield — Wappen at st gilgen.png • Shield Size — 80x110px • Pushpin Map — Austria Salzburg#Austria • Pushpin Mapsize — 270 • Pushpin Map Caption — Location within Salzburg State##Location within Austria • Map Caption — Location within Salzburg-Umgebung district • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Type1 — State • Subdivision Name1 — Salzburg • Subdivision Type2 — District • Subdivision Name2 — Salzburg-Umgebung • Parts Style — para • Leader Title — Mayor • Leader Name — Otto Kloiber • Leader Party — Austria • Area Footnotes — area_footnotes • Area Total Km2 — area_total_km2 • Elevation M — 545 • Population As Of — population_as_of • Population Footnotes — population_footnotes • Population Total — population_total • Population Density Km2 — auto • Timezone — CET • Timezone Dst — CEST • Utc Offset — +1 • Utc Offset Dst — +2 • Registration Plate — SL • Postal Code Type — Postal code • Postal Code — 5340 • Area Code Type — Area code • Area Code — +43 6227 • Website — www.gemgilgen.at Sankt Gilgen (Central Bavarian: Sankt Gieng; also St. Gilgen) is a village by Lake Wolfgang in the Austrian state of Salzburg, in the Salzkammergut region.

Named after Saint Giles, Sankt Gilgen was first mentioned in documents in 1376. In 1863, shipping on Lake Wolfgang started and brought attention to the little village. The construction of the Salzkammergut-Lokalbahn in 1893 led to another increase in tourism. Rich Viennese, such as the surgeon Theodor Billroth, started to build summer residences there.

Sankt Gilgen is situated in the north-western shore of the lake Wolfgangsee, close to Strobl and to the Upper Austrian municipality of St. Wolfgang. It has 3,784 inhabitants, lies 545 metres above sea level and covers an area of 98.67 square kilometres.

The parish church is dedicated to Saint Aegidius (Latin), in English Saint Giles, which is reflected in the name of the town, Sankt Gilgen. St. Gilgen is a well-known travel destination. Boats from St. Gilgen sail around the Wolfgangsee, providing transport and views of the surrounding mountains. The hermitage of the original St. Gilgen may be seen, behind a chapel, in the Falkenstein cliffs west of St. Wolfgang and east of Fürberg. In 2005 St. Gilgen was promoted as the "Mozart Village" by the Wolfgangsee Tourist Board. Although Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart never visited St. Gilgen (as he had intended to), his grandfather worked in the town, his mother was born in St. Gilgen, and his sister Nannerl moved there after her marriage. The village now boasts a first-class international school, the St. Gilgen International School. The Gut Aich Priory (Benedictine) was founded in St. Gilgen in 1993. • Illustration — Parish church and cemetery in the center of Sankt Gilgen • Illustration — Town hall of Sankt Gilgen • Illustration — Quay on Lake Wolfgang • Illustration — Valley station of the Zwölferhorn cableway

residents • Anna Maria Walburga Pertl (1720–1778), mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • August Brunetti-Pisano (1870–1943), composer • Brother David Steindl-Rast (1926–present), Benedictine monk and interfaith lecturer on peace and gratitude • Michael Jeannée (born 1943), journalist • Miguel Herz-Kestranek (born 1948), actor • Hubert Raudaschl (1942–2025), Olympic sailor and sailboat manufacturer • Helmut Kohl (1930–2017), the German chancellor used to reside in the town during summer