It is one of the traditional café- and restaurant gardens in the old city of Salzburg, Posthof. Just recently re-designed, see also below, label pink sun screens. Now Salzburgers are discussing the move: should it simply have been wooden beer garden benches and tables, or rather cast iron 'art deco' furniture from a DIY superstore? Should the hedges have been left higher to block the views to adjacent Kajetanerplatz and Schanzlgasse? Should a commission have been employed to decide what to do with this prominent place?
Every once in a while somebody will mention Prince Archbishop Wolf Dietrich; he was the guy who was responsible among others for the layout of the large squares around Salzburg Cathedral. As a renaissance prince he did not ask, he would not have accepted petitions from concerned citizens, he would not have installed a Gestaltungsbeirat to assist his very own Altstadtkommission. He had taste, he knew about arts and architecture, and he simply had power and money. Good or bad – or just different? Should we have an opinion poll on the issue – or rather install a commission of experts?
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