🏙 Towns & cities

Werfen

municipality in St. Johann/Pongau District, Salzburg, Austria

🇦🇹 Austria · 47.4750, 13.1889

Werfen is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia articles of 3 productions — in the section each entry below links back to. No Wikidata filming statement points here yet, so this page says plainly which kind of evidence it rests on.

1 place inside Werfen has a page of its own — listed below. Everything shot at it is already named above, recorded against Werfen as well.

“The "Do-Re-Mi" picnic scene in the mountains was filmed above the town of Werfen in the Salzach River valley on June 25 and 27, including a brief scene of the family riding the Schafberg Railway up the mountain.”

The Sound of Music (1965) · Wikipedia

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Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Werfen as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, and labelled as what it is — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

The Sound of Music 1965
Where Eagles Dare 1968
“Hohenwerfen was also the location for some filming of Where Eagles Dare.” Wikipedia
The Man in the High Castle 2015–2019

Filming locations inside Werfen

1 place inside Werfen, with a page of its own. Every production shot at it is already listed above, because Wikidata records it against Werfen too.

🏰 Castles & palaces

Hohenwerfen Castle

🇦🇹 Austria

castle in Austria

Named here by Werfen’s own Wikipedia article

Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Werfen, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.

The Sound of Music 1965

“A small portion of a picnic scene from The Sound of Music was filmed on a hillside of the village of Werfen.” Wikipedia

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Werfen?

3 productions are recorded as filmed in Werfen, including The Sound of Music (1965), Where Eagles Dare (1968) and The Man in the High Castle (2015–2019). 3 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Werfen?

The Sound of Music (1965), covered by 71 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Werfen?

Werfen is in Austria, at 47.4750, 13.1889.

What other filming locations are near Werfen?

Felsenreitschule, Hellbrunn Palace, Marktschellenberg, Mirabell Palace and 2 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0.