View down the Linzergasse in Salzburg with colorful facades, small shops, and the Sebastianskirche tower rising above the rooftops.

Cafe terrace with red umbrellas and a church facade along the Linzergasse in Salzburg.

Looking down the Linzergasse toward the Salzach river with shops on both sides.

The Linzergasse shopping street stretching toward the hills on Salzburg right bank.

Tall painted buildings and ground-floor boutiques lining the Linzergasse seen from street level.

Adriana walking between the colorful narrow facades of the Linzergasse.

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Linzergasse

The Linzergasse is Salzburg's shopping street on the right bank of the Salzach, a pedestrian lane of independent shops, cafes and historic merchant houses.

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Linzergasse

Today

Always accessible

Admission

Free

Plan for

45 mins

outdoors

Where

Mirabell & Kapuzinerberg

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The Linzergasse runs along the right bank of the Salzach, the pedestrian spine of Salzburg's Neustadt and the quieter counterpart to the famous Getreidegasse across the river. It begins at the Platzl, the small square by the Staatsbrücke, and runs straight to Franz-Josef-Straße, where the city's Linzertor gate stood until 1894. The name comes from its old job: for centuries this was the main road out of Salzburg toward Linz and Vienna, a trading route walked since Roman times.

Today it's a working shopping street rather than a showpiece. Around 140 shops line the lane, including boutiques, souvenir shops, craft workshops, restaurants, bakeries and cafes, with a few international names in between. Wrought-iron guild signs hang above the doorways, the same craft you'll spot on the Getreidegasse. Halfway along, a covered stairway climbs the Kapuzinerberg past the Stations of the Cross, and at the upper end the Sebastiansfriedhof holds the graves of Mozart's father and widow. It's where Salzburg actually shops, eats and runs its errands.

Plan your visit

Opening Hours: Always accessible

Getting there: Linzer Gasse, 5020 SalzburgBus 1 3 4 6 Makartplatz · 5 min walkMirabell & Kapuzinerberg

What's on here

Krampus and Perchten Runs in Salzburg

Hand-carved wooden masks, shaggy fur and heavy bells: on Advent evenings, Krampus and Perchten groups stamp and roar their way through the old town to drive out the winter.

Dec 05, 2026 - Dec 21, 2026

Street Festival around Linzergasse

For a summer weekend, Linzergasse and the lanes around it become one street festival, put on by the neighborhood association, with music and room to meet.

Jul 02, 2027 - Jul 03, 2027

Sightseeing

Shopping

Historical Landmark

Muvamo Opinion

The Linzergasse is where Salzburg shops for itself. It runs dead straight along the foot of the Kapuzinerberg on the right bank of the Salzach, a pedestrian lane of specialist stores, family-run fashion, craft-minded boutiques and a couple of galleries.

You get medieval bones here, a narrow lane with beautiful wrought-iron signs swinging over the shopfronts, but with room to actually browse. During festival season, when the city fills up, locals keep doing their errands over here, and it shows in the mix: a proper hardware shop next to a perfumery, a bakery whose morning smell carries half the block, an Italian trattoria with a handful of pavement tables. Spend a slow morning and you'll leave with the kind of small finds, a book, a local delicacy, a piece of handmade jewellery, that only turn up when you have the time to look properly.

What we'd send you here for, beyond the shopping, is the layering. The Linzergasse is a single straight line that quietly stacks up centuries. The poet Georg Trakl trained in the Engel pharmacy partway along before studying pharmacy in Vienna. The physician Paracelsus spent his last months in one of these houses in 1541. And at the top, behind an unassuming archway, the Sebastiansfriedhof opens into Italian-style arcades where Leopold and Constanze Mozart are buried, a few steps off the busiest pedestrian street in town and almost always empty.

Give it an unhurried hour. Walk up from the Platzl, dip into whatever shop catches you, and watch for the covered stairway opposite the shopfronts. A few steps up and the whole lane lines up beneath you, rooftops and shop signs running toward the river.

Recommended tours & experiences

Salzburg 2.5-Hour Walking Tour: Mozart, Old Town & More: A 2.5-hour guided loop from the Mirabell side across the Salzach into the Old Town, with an optional panorama from the Mönchsberg.

Helpful Hints

Most shops open Monday to Friday around 10 to 18, Saturday until about 17, and close on Sundays, when only a few souvenir shops trade.
Enter from the Platzl by the Staatsbrücke for the most atmospheric approach; the street then runs in a straight line to Franz-Josef-Straße.
The covered stairway opposite the shops is a quick route up the Kapuzinerberg to the viewpoint and monastery.
Pair it with the Steingasse, the darker medieval lane one block closer to the river.

Gastronomic Discoveries

Small Italian trattorias and family bakeries line the lane, handy for an espresso or a quick lunch between stops.

Hidden Gems

The Engel pharmacy, working here since the early 19th century, once trained the Salzburg-born poet Georg Trakl.
Look up for the hanging wrought-iron guild signs, a craft tradition the street shares with the Getreidegasse.
Paracelsus, the Renaissance physician, spent his final months in a house on the Linzergasse in 1541.

Our Little Extras

Walk the Linzergasse and the Getreidegasse back-to-back to see both sides of Salzburg's shopping in a single afternoon.
From the upper end, Franz-Josef-Straße leads in minutes to the Mirabell Gardens.

Mario and Adriana walking hand in hand through the Linzergasse in Salzburg.

Close-up of the Sebastianskirche bell tower with its clock face and golden cross at the end of the Linzergasse.

Pedestrians browsing past boutiques and cafes along the Linzergasse on a sunny day.

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Salzburg's Shopping Street on the Right Bank - Linzergasse

The Linzergasse has carried traffic since Roman times, when it formed the main thoroughfare of the districts on the right bank of the Salzach. For travellers leaving Salzburg toward Linz, Vienna and the north-eastern lands of the Habsburg Empire, this was the road out, and the street still carries that destination in its name. Where the Getreidegasse on the opposite bank served the city's wealthier merchants, the Linzergasse was the lane of smaller traders and craftspeople, a character it has held remarkably well.

A Road Named for Where It Led

The street runs from the Platzl at the Staatsbrücke to Franz-Josef-Straße, the point where the medieval Linzertor gate marked the edge of town until its demolition in 1894. All overland traffic heading north-east once passed through here, which made the Linzergasse a street of inns, stables and shops serving people on the move. Many of its houses trace their records back to the 14th and 15th centuries, and although almost all were remodelled over the years, the narrow plots and tall burgher façades still follow the medieval pattern. It earned a nickname as the “little sister” of the grander Getreidegasse, though the two share the same hanging wrought-iron signs and the same long mercantile history.

Fire, Rebuilding and the Houses That Remember

In 1818 a catastrophic fire tore through Salzburg's right-bank Neustadt, destroying or damaging more than 80 private and public buildings, including churches, Schloss Mirabell and the western row of houses along the Linzergasse. The damage was severe, but the merchants' houses were rebuilt almost in their entirety, which is why the street today looks coherent rather than patched. Several addresses carry stories worth slowing down for. The Engel pharmacy has traded on the Linzergasse since 1809, and the expressionist poet Georg Trakl, born in Salzburg in 1887, trained there as a pharmacy assistant. A few doors along, the Gablerbräu marks the birthplace of the opera singer Richard Mayr, remembered for his Baron Ochs in Strauss's “Der Rosenkavalier”. And in one of these houses the Renaissance physician Paracelsus spent the last months of his life in 1541.

Where the Street Climbs and Rests

Two of the Linzergasse's best moments sit just off the shopping street. Partway along, a covered stairway climbs past the Stations of the Cross to the Kapuzinerberg and its Capuchin monastery, with a wide view over the old town at the top. At the upper end lies the Sebastiansfriedhof, a cemetery laid out around 1600 in the style of an Italian campo santo. Mozart's father Leopold and his widow Constanze are buried here, along with the physician Paracelsus, and the Gabriel Chapel at its centre holds the tomb of Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich. It's a quiet stop, and an easy one to add to a walk up the street.