The Sound of Music (film) Nazis, which would not have been possible; Salzburg is over two hundred miles from Switzerland. The von Trapp villa, however, was only a few kilometers from the Austria–Germany border, and the final scene shows the family hiking on the Obersalzberg near the German town of Berchtesgaden, within sight of Adolf Hitler's Kehlsteinhaus Eagle's Nest retreat. In reality, the family simply walked to the local train station and boarded a train to Italy. Although Georg was an ethnic German-Austrian, he was also an Italian citizen, having been born in the Dalmatian city of Zadar, which at that time was part of
Freilassing–Berchtesgaden railway is operated and staffed by DB Regio. Another Intercity service to Berchtesgaden, the pair of trains (2428/2429) from the Ruhr, was, however, withdrawn at the timetable change in December 2007. This service also ran between Freilassing and Berchtesgaden in both directions as a regional train. Since 2006, the line has been part of the Salzburg S-Bahn network and is integrated as line S 3 (Salzburg Central Station ("Hauptbahnhof") or Golling–Abtenau to Bad Reichenhall) and the superimposed line S 4 (Freilassing–Berchtesgaden) service initially ran every hour. In the city of Salzburg there are now additional stops apart from the Hauptbahnhof. From