Since I have lived in Mondsee as a child, exploring the "Mondseeland" brought up many memories. Let me relate one of them:

THE "MARKTPLATZ" IN FRONT OF THE BASILICA. Sundays the farmers from the surrounding area would come to church en masse. As I understood it, each farm would assign a different person to stay on the farm to look after the animals. This being so, the population which could be seen on the Marktplatz was quite impressive and the sound of all these people talking to each other before heading in to the ... (more)