Ried adds two connections to the Silent Night story. Franz Xaver Gruber completed his teacher training here in 1806. The Innviertler Volkskundehaus museum also holds the nativity scene that stood in Oberndorf’s church when the carol was first performed. The town center is arranged around a sequence of four squares.
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Ried im Innkreis
An Upper Austrian town where Franz Xaver Gruber completed his teacher training, and where the nativity scene from the first performance of Silent Night is preserved.