mountaineer Patric Leitner, five-time winner of luge World Cup and four-time World Championship titles (in men's doubles with Alexander Resch) Felix Loch, four-time luge gold medalist (two in singles and two in mixed team) FIL World Luge Championships Manuel Machata (born 1984), German former bobsledder Peter Öttl, Grand Prix motorcycle road racer Hans Plenk, Olympic bronze-medalist in the men's single luge event Romy Schneider, (1938–1982), German-French film actress Kaspar Stanggassinger, (1871-1899), Redemptorist priest, declared Blessed in 1988 Silvia Treimer, ski mountaineer Hermann von Barth, (1845–1876), German 19th century mountaineer John Allan Wyeth (1894–1981), American war poet and Post-Impressionist painter, was a regular visitor to Berchtesgaden, where he would indulge in his passion for landscape painting, during the 1930s. Toy symphonies in the 1760s a number of anonymous toy symphonies (including the famous Toy Symphony often attributed to Haydn or Leopold Mozart) were composed at Berchtesgaden, then a manufacturing centre for toy instruments. Some of the instruments used for these can be seen in the Museum Carolino Augusteum in Salzburg. References External links Regional tourism portal Regional website for visitors and tourists Berchtesgaden National Park pictures and information PhotoGlobe – Berchtesgadener Land offers high quality photos of the area around Berchtesgaden together with GPS coordinates. AFRC Timeline "Third Reich in Ruins" (historical and modern comparison photos) Pictures from Berchtesgaden Map of Bavaria in 1789 Berchtesgaden military intelligence records, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Berchtesgadener Land Ski areas and resorts in Germany