Silent Night Chapel

The Silent Night Chapel is placed in the metropolis of Oberndorf bei Salzburg in the Austrian province of Salzburg, and is a monument to the Christmas carol Silent Night and its librettist, Joseph Mohr and its composer, Franz Xaver Gruber. It stands on the web page of the former St. Nicholas's Church, where on December 24, 1818, the Christmas carol became executed for the first time. The church of St. Nicholas turned into broken numerous instances inside the 1890s by means of flooding of the Salzach - particularly via the flood of 1899, which severely impacted the Altach district and destroyed a huge a part of the city.

This brought about the choice that the complete of Oberndorf, which include the parish church of St Nicholas, might want to be rebuilt about 800 m upstream. Due to the high fee of upkeep and the continued threat of flooding, the damaged St. Nikola Church changed into not repaired. Instead, it was changed in 1906 with a church inside the new metropolis middle. In 1913 the antique parish church turned into demolished and simplest a debris cone marked the place wherein the now-famous Christmas track become first finished.