Oberndorf became rather famous because the carol Silent Night was first performed at the former St. Nikola parish church by the school master Franz Gruber and the young priest Joseph Mohr on Christmas Eve1818, from where it spread out to the world. As in the 1890s several floods of the Salzach river destroyed large parts of Oberndorf, the church was finally demolished and a memorial chapel was erected on its site in 1937. A replica can be found in Frankenmuth, Michigan.
Oberndorf has just over 5000 inhabitants and can be reached from Salzburg by S-Bahn rapid transit railway and the B 156 Lamprechtshausener Straßefederal highway running from Salzburg toward Braunau am Inn.
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