Werfen Steel Sign

Werfen - Where Eagles Dare
steel sign 833mm x 312mm

Werfen is a market town in the district of St. Johann im Pongau, in the Austrian state of Salzburg. The castle Hohenwerfen Castle was the setting for the 1968 film Where Eagles Dare starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. The cable car used was a Feuerkogel Seilbahn at Ebensee, Austria. The Airport scenes were filmed at the Flugplatz at Aigen im Ennstal, Austria, the exact place of filming is the "Fiala-Fernbrugg" garrison, still used by HS Geschwader 2 and FlAR2/3rd Bat. of the Austrian Army. The big rocky mountain in the background of the airfield is the Grimming mountains, about 40 km east of the "Hoher Dachstein", or about 80 km east and 10 km south from Werfen. The village setting was Lofer, Austria, all filmed in January 1968.