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30-578: It lies on the eastern side of lake Wolfgangsee in the Salzkammergut resort region, close to Sankt Gilgen and the Upper Austrian municipalities of St. Wolfgang and Bad Ischl . The town has a population of 3,453 (2001) and an area of 93.89 km. Both the main road (No. 158), from Salzburg and St. Gilgen to Bad Ischl, and the road to St. Wolfgang pass on the edge of Strobl so there is no through traffic. There are several villages around

60-514: A bath in the lake and flood Kohl's residence. The Bundesstraße B158 from Bad Ischl to Salzburg runs along the southern shore of Lake Wolfgang. In St. Gilgen the B154 highway branches off, leading to the A1 Westautobahn motorway ( European route E55 and E60 ). The former Salzkammergut-Lokalbahn narrow gauge railway to Salzburg went out of service in 1957. Ship transport on

90-416: A church in the village. Singer died before the completion of the project, which was given to Palier Andrä Huber of St. Gilgen. The church was dedicated to the archbishop's patron saint on May 3, 1761. The building's original late Baroque appearance is maintained in virtually pristine condition. The high altar painting, by Johann Benedikt Werkstätter ( de:Benedikt Werkstätter ), depicts St. Sigmund along with

120-769: A few months, and was buried at the Church of Our Lady of Laeken in Brussels. In his will he left the Empress Josephine's diamond tiara to his sister, Marie-José . It is reported that Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, married Louise Marie Jacqueline Peyrebrune (16 February 1921, in La Réole – 15 September 2014, in Saint-Hilaire-de-la-Noaille ), formerly Mrs. Georges Schaack, daughter of Alfred Peyrebrune and Marie Madeleine Triaut, in

150-458: A religious ceremony in Paris on 14 September 1977. This marriage has been mentioned in every edition of the revived Almanach de Gotha . However L'Allemagne Dynastique doubts this assertion, affirming instead that not only was there no civil marriage but that there was also no religious one (which could not take place before a civil marriage, according to French Law). No such religious marriage

180-482: Is a lake in Austria that lies mostly within the state of Salzburg and is one of the best known lakes in the Salzkammergut resort region. The municipalities on its shore are Strobl , St. Gilgen with the villages of Abersee and Ried as well as the market town of St. Wolfgang in the state of Upper Austria . The town and the lake are named after Saint Wolfgang of Regensburg , who, according to legend, built

210-523: Is registered in the Parish registers of Saint-Pierre-de-Montrouge , but a mere private blessing eight months after the death of her husband given by Father Marcelino Carrera was registered: " The private blessing uniting before God Charles Theodore Count of Flanders and Louise Marie Jacqueline Peyrebrune was given at Saint Peter's at the altar of the Sacred Heart on 14 September 1977. The mutual consent

240-738: Is surrounded by the Salzkammergut mountain range. On the northern side, the Schafberg is located. A rack railway , the Schafbergbahn leads up to the summit at 1,782 m. Due to the steep shore at its foot only a footpath connects St. Wolfgang and the village of Ried with St. Gilgen along the Falkensteinwand , the set of the Bergpsalmen ("mountain psalms") lyric anthology written by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel in 1870. In

270-463: Is the yearly "Voice of Strobl" song contest at the lake. There is a promenade on the lakeshore, where one can see sculpture by Toni Schneider-Manzell, de:Toni Schneider-Manzell , Ilse Sprohar, and Eva Mazzucco. The famous town of St. Wolfgang is within hiking distance, and common excursions from Strobl include the Postalm plateau and the Schafberg (1783m), which can be ascended via a cog railway,

300-842: The Allies of World War II by an allegedly premature surrender in 1940 and collaboration with the Nazis during the occupation of Belgium. Charles' regency ended when Leopold was allowed to return to Belgium. Shortly after returning and resuming his monarchical duties, Leopold abdicated in favour of his son, Baudouin . During the Second World War Charles was known as General du Boc, in order to hide his identity for security reasons. He had an association with RAF Hullavington where many top officers from Allied nations were based or transported to and from. Born in Brussels , Charles

330-487: The Marshall Plan . The building sector was stimulated by government grants to repair war-damaged buildings and to build social housing. The financial sector was sanitized through the "Operation Gutt" (after its architect, Camille Gutt ), whereby illegally gained profits during the war were targeted. A social welfare system was introduced and a system was set up to govern labour relations. Furthermore, women obtained

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360-461: The Schafbergbahn , as well as Bad Ischl, where Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria often spent his summers. The Laimer Family folk musicians are a local attraction. The area is popular for hiking and watersports in the summer, for skiing in the winter, and is well-served by pensions and hotels. The former Salzkammergut-Lokalbahn narrow gauge railway to Salzburg went out of service in 1957. The name Strobl originally meant "scrubby" or "unkempt";

390-479: The Cultural Center which now occupies the villa presented a historical exhibition on local resistance to the Nazis. Strobl has an attractive church ( de:Pfarrkirche St. Sigismund (Strobl) ), where Prince Tassilo von Fürstenberg ( de:Tassilo von Fürstenberg ) is buried. In 1758 the archbishop Sigismund III (Christoph von Schrattenbach) commissioned Kassian Singer, master builder from Kitzbühel , to build

420-559: The Holy Trinity. There are also statues of St. Christopher and St. Joseph by Sebastian Eberl. The high altar and tabernacle were made by Lorenz Hörmbler. On the left side-altar is depicted Our Lady of Good Counsel, and on the right, St. Francis de Sales, painted by Peter Anton Lorenzoni. A new organ (built by Orgelbau Felsberg) was dedicated in 2003. Seats in the municipal assembly ( Gemeinderat ) as of 2009 elections: Wolfgangsee Lake Wolfgang ( German : Wolfgangsee )

450-746: The aristocracy and high bourgeoise summering in Bad Ischl. After the Second World War, a portion of the estate was converted into the Kurhotel Schloss Strobl. After World War I Strobl became a popular summer resort for film stars like Emil Jannings and Theo Lingen . Princess Marie Vassiltchikov , in her memoir Berlin Diaries , mentions stopping in Strobl during her flight after the 20 July Plot against Adolf Hitler . In

480-571: The first church here in the late 10th century. Lake Wolfgang stretches about 10.5 kilometres from the northwest to the southeast. It is divided into two parts by a peninsula , called die Enge (the Narrow), situated roughly in the middle of its southern shore opposite St. Wolfgang, where the breadth is no more than 200 metres. The western portion of the lake at St. Gilgen is known as the Abersee . The lake has an area of about 12.9 to 13.1 km and

510-722: The honorary rank of sub-lieutenant in the British Royal Navy , with promotion to honorary lieutenant the following year. Later in 1926 he returned to Belgium and began attending the Royal Military School of Brussels. Prince Charles was appointed Regent of Belgium when the German occupation of his country ended in 1944. The role of his elder brother King Leopold III during the Second World War , as well as Leopold's marriage to Mary Lilian Baels ,

540-576: The hot controversy known as "The Royal Question ", which was to dominate Belgian politics until 1950, can thus be said to have started in the Austrian town. The town was in the US zone of Allied-occupied Austria after the war, where the villa of the Viennese banking family Deutsch (expropriated by the Nazis in 1938) served as an officers' club. Strobl was the site of a Displaced Persons camp . In 2008,

570-705: The lake - the main ones being St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut, and St. Gilgen at the other end of the Wolfgangsee, plus the hamlet of Weissenbach bei Strobl. A small steamer operates on the lake. Also in Strobl, the University of Vienna operates the Bundesinstitut für Erwachsenenbildung , an adult-education institution, and a frequent location for academic conferences or for the Summer School for International and European Studies. Another famous event

600-582: The lake is provided by the Salzburg AG public utility company, which runs six vessels. Prince Charles, Count of Flanders Prince Charles, Count of Flanders ( Dutch : Karel , German : Karl ; 10 October 1903 – 1 June 1983) was a member of the Belgian royal family who served as regent of Belgium from 1944 until 1950, while a judicial commission investigated his elder brother, King Leopold III of Belgium , as to whether he betrayed

630-592: The last days of World War II , King Leopold III of Belgium and Princess Lilian were interned at Strobl, closely guarded by a Waffen-SS contingent. Immediately upon the King being released by the 106th Cavalry Group of the US Army, his brother Prince Charles and Belgian PM Achille Van Acker arrived in Strobl to confront the King with allegations of his having collaborated with the Nazi occupation in its earlier stages;

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660-805: The right to vote in parliamentary elections in 1948. Also during his regency the Benelux customs union was formed, Belgium became a member state of the United Nations , and the North Atlantic Treaty was signed. In 1950, Charles's regency ended when Leopold III returned to Belgium and resumed his monarchical duties, following a plebiscite . Charles retired from public life, taking up residence in Ostend and becoming involved in artistic pursuits. Having taken up painting, he signed his works: "Karel van Vlaanderen" (Charles of Flanders ). He

690-598: The south and southwest of Lake Wolfgang lies the Osterhorngruppe , with heights up to 1,800 metres. Directly south of St. Gilgen rises the Zwölferhorn (1,522 m), which can be visited by cable car . The settlements around the lake, especially St. Wolfgang and St. Gilgen are popular resort towns , mainly in summer. The Gasthaus Weißes Rössl at St. Wolfgang is the set of the famous 1897 operetta The White Horse Inn by Ralph Benatzky , performed throughout

720-521: The town's name goes back to the 14th century, when the Wolfgangsee was known as the Abersee, and one Friedrich Stroblo appears as the owner of a Seege —a fishpond or weir. Wolf Strobl took over property from the Laimer family about 1553, which became known as Am Schober , an inn which provided the basis for the later settlement's first given official mention in 1593, in connection with Hanns III Strobl, who

750-437: The world and filmed several times. Furthermore, the area around the lake was the location of several Heimatfilm movies, suggesting an untouched alpine idyll . Because Lake Wolfgang has been the vacation resort of former German chancellor Helmut Kohl for many years, the film director Christoph Schlingensief made the lake a site of his Chance 2000 project of 1998 when he invited "Germany's four million unemployed " to take

780-528: Was a local official and tavernkeeper in 1587. Later, Joseph Sigmund Berchtold und Sonnenburg married into the Strobl family and came into the property. Nonetheless, the name "Strobl" was firmly attached to the area around the Am Schober inn. The first lane as one enters the town from the east is still called the "Schoberweg". Around 1800, with the expansion of post and stagecoach lines, the Platzlhof inn

810-692: Was established as a station on the Postal line of Thurn und Taxis . Due to its picturesque setting the village prospered from 1877 to 1890 with tourist trade spilling over from Bad Ischl. The author Hugo von Hofmannsthal spent his vacations at Strobl and around 1900, it became a residence of Baron Gecmen-Waldeck, whose family industries generated enormous wealth, and supported a sumptuous residence in Hietzing (Vienna) as well as vast properties in Bohemia. During this period as well Strobl regularly hosted events for

840-486: Was questioned and he became a controversial monarch . Charles's regency was dominated by the events resulting from the German occupation and the controversies around his brother Leopold. This period had an important impact on events in later decades. During his regency, important economic and political decisions were taken. Belgium managed to jump-start its national economy with the aid of American assistance provided under

870-638: Was the 377th knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword . Charles had a natural daughter, Isabelle Wybo, born in 1938 as the result of a relationship with Jacqueline Wehrli , the daughter of a Brussels baker. Her existence was largely unknown until a biography of the prince was published in 2003. Wybo made an official appearance with her first cousin-once removed, Prince Laurent in 2012. He died on 1 June 1983 in Ostend, predeceasing his elder brother by

900-793: Was the second son of King Albert I of Belgium and Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria . During World War I , the children of the Belgian royal family were sent to United Kingdom while King Albert I remained in Belgium behind the Yser Front . In 1915 Prince Charles began attending Wixenford School in Wokingham, Berkshire , and in 1917 proceeded to the Royal Naval College, Osborne , and two years later to Dartmouth . In 1926 he received

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