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A city street with parked cars and traffic lights. There are traffic signs and a rising bollard system in the foreground. | © Tourismus Salzburg Show gallery

Traffic bollards

In various locations in the historic center of Salzburg, the installed automatic and fixed bollards help to calm traffic. The road areas protected by the bollards are not fundamentally designed for individual traffic.


Parking in the Old Town of Salzburg – the bollard system

Bollard activation 11:00 a.m.
At 11:00 a.m., the bollards will rise. If a vehicle owner has "gotten lost" before 11:00 a.m., they will not be able to leave the city area after 11:00 a.m. This vehicle owner must contact the police at the town hall square and will receive an exit code there after paying a fine.

Hotel access
Hotel guests with a hotel reservation can enter without any issues. The bollards at the entrances "Rathausplatz," "Mozartplatz," "Kajetanerplatz," and "Linzer Gasse" are equipped with an intercom, allowing contact with the respective hotels located there. The hotel will provide the guest with an entrance code for a one-time, time-limited entry and exit.
Attention: Each hotel is only accessible via a specific entrance. Please check with your hotel which entrance you need to use!

Barrier-free
With the Euro-Key the (bollard-protected) disabled parking spaces in the Old Town can be accessed normally via the entrances: Hofstallgasse, Mozartplatz, Kajetanerplatz. Guests without a Euro-Key should use the disabled parking spaces at Makartplatz, Franz-Josef-Straße, and Münzgasse.

Recommendation

Use the P+R facilities and public transport to conveniently reach the city center. The affordable P+R combined ticket is available for € 15.00 (parking fee for one car and a day ticket for zone S until 12:00 a.m. for up to five passengers traveling together). In July and August, the discounted P+R combined ticket is offered for only € 7.50/car!

Nearby parking garages include Mönchsberggarage (at the Festival Hall), Mirabell-Congress-Garage, parking garage Linzer Gasse or in the Barmherzige Brüder garage (Rudolfsplatz).
Please note that as of July 1, 2026, access or passage through the zone with traffic restrictions (city center) is not permitted.


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