From Salzburg to Julia's meadow

neruda,

I haven't a clue what "Julia's meadow" is. Could you elaborate?

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/ap-top-entertainment-news-1217-edt-62263682

Is this what you are look for? Do you know if it is open to the public?

It's the meadow they used to film opening scene of The Sound of Music. Yes, it's on private property.

Being private property may or may not be a problem. Some European nations require public access to private properties.

Joe's link doesn't mention "Julia" or "meadow". I searched the page for both words.

Out of curiosity I did a Search.
Found this: http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/s/Sound-Of-Music.php
"The mountain, atop which Maria (Julie Andrews) makes her first twirling appearance, is Mehlweg, near the Bavarian village of Markt Schellenberg, about six miles from Salzburg."

And this: https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/journey-meadow-filmed-opening-scene-sound-music/story?id=29698288
"The actual hill used in the movie is in Germany, not Austria, . . . . Today, it is owned by a famous mountain climber, who is reluctant to let outsiders onto their property,"

The place is actually called Marktschellenberg (one word), and Mehlweg is a street, not a meadow. It is south of Salzburg, but on the German side of the border.

So I am not sure where you get your 19 Km from Munich from.

To be precise: Mehlweg is a subdivision of the village Marktschellenberg, stretching along the street Mehlweg.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehlweg

So I am not sure where you get your 19 Km from Munich from.

It was meant 19 km from Salzburg.

I can't walk it because it's 19 kilometers

You need not to walk. There is an hourly bus from Salzburg to Marktschellenberg, line # 840.
https://www.rvo-bus.de/oberbayernbus/view/mdb/kursbuch/mdb_280613_840_211018.pdf

Culture shock for US travelers: Public transport is virtually everywhere available in civilized European countries. :-)

Double culture shock: Just because it is a different country with a border in between doesn't stop public transport.

If, as Chris quoted, it's about 6 miles from Salzburg, so it would be about 10 km. Maybe the OP meant to type a 0 and typed a 9 instead. Still too far to walk for most of us. Personally I'm not sure I'd go out of my way to see that meadow - if indeed you can actually see it if it's private property - and I'm a big SOM fan. To get the effect of the movie opening you'd have to see it from a helicopter in order to see the scope of it. And really, while the mountains are still there does the meadow even look the same as it did 55 years ago?

Still too far to walk for most of us.

@Nancy:
How on earth can you assume that one has to walk long distances here just because having not a car available?
This can definitely be true in the US where public transport is on a level of a less developed country.

I am on a mission to get to this meadow, private or not.
Yes, I meant 19k from downtown Salzburg. I used Google maps to figure out distance.
As for buses, thank you much, I'll definitely take the bus and beg to be let in to walk property; )

that the OP said it was 19km, when in reality it is closer to 10km.

It is 16.5 km taking the shortest route by car from downtown Salzburg to Marktschellenberg, not counting the distance from the village center to the meadow.

I happen to know the place since I've spent several holidays at the (regrettably now defunct) Schmidbachlehen at the top end of the Mehlweg, which meanders up to the mountains from the village. It's true that you can take the bus from Salzburg to Marktschellenberg but it's not true that you can take a bus from M. up to the Mehlweg, the topmost point of which is approx 4km away from and at least 400 m above the village center. Let's hope there are taxis in M (I've no idea since I always went with my car).

So, does anyone really know if you can actually go to the top and walk around the meadow were Julie sang "the hills are alive"??