The Heldenorgel (Heroes’ Organ) at Kufstein Fortress is the world’s largest outdoor organ, built in 1931 as a World War I memorial, with 4,948 pipes installed in the rock of the Georgsturm tower. A daily concert plays every noon year-round, audible from the town below without paying fortress entry (EUR 14). The Kufstein Fortress has its own history: originally Bavarian, conquered by Maximilian I in 1504, used as an Austrian state prison in the 19th century. The organ is the strangest thing about it, and worth the noon timing if you’re passing through. Kufstein is on the Innsbruck-Munich rail line, 1 hour from Innsbruck and 1.5 hours from Munich.
monument in Kufstein
Heldenorgel
The Heldenorgel (Heroes' Organ) at Kufstein Fortress is the world's largest outdoor organ, built in 1931 as a memorial to the Austrian and German dead of World War I. The pipes are built into the mountain rock of the Georgsturm tower, and the instrument is played every day at noon, its sound carrying across the Inn Valley below the fortress.
- Type
- monument
- Destination
- Kufstein
- Cost
- Paid entry
- Founded
- 1931
- Era
- Modern
- Address
- 6330 Kufstein
- Coordinates
- 47.5822, 12.1692
- Official website
- Visit website