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At the Vermont lodge, Ditter toured the small stone chapel built by Werner von Trapp, the second oldest von Trapp son, in the 1950s before he left to fight in WWII with his brother as American soldiers in the elite 10th Mountain Division. “What they’ve built over the years is amazing,” she says. “I felt like I was in a European Austrian lodge. What a wise visionary Maria von Trapp was.”<\/p>\n

The real von Trapp story<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

The family’s true history is quieter than Hollywood’s version but no less remarkable, starting withthe orphaned girl who found comfort with the nuns of Salzburg’s Nonnberg Abbey<\/a>. On the Trapp Family Lodge & Resort tour<\/a>, visitors learn that after somewhat reluctantly marrying Georg, Maria and the family fled Villa Trapp<\/a> in Austria not by foot over the mountains \u2013 that would have taken them to Germany, not Switzerland \u2013 but by train to Italy (formerly Croatia), where Georg had grown up and earned a military pension. From there they sailed to the US.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Visitors can tour the small stone chapel built in the 1950s by Werner von Trapp, the second-oldest of the von Trapp children (Credit: Chadwick Estey)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Guests also discover that Maria was “strict, not as cosy as you see in the movie, but that’s kind of the German and Austrian way \u2013 very black and white and right or wrong”, said Kristina. “She was also very gracious and giving. As a kid, my brother and I called her Grandmother with a capital ‘G’.” And, she adds, it was her grandfather Georg who, despite his portrayal in the movie, “was actually really warm and loving”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As for the singing von Trapp children later raised in Stowe \u2013 her aunts and uncles \u2013 Kristina remembers them as a doctor, a dairy farmer, a music teacher, the owner of Vermont’s von Trapp Farmstead<\/a> cheese-making business and even a missionary in New Guinea living with no electricity. The youngest, one of three born to Maria and Georg, is her father Johannes, who helps keep their Austrian heritage alive in the hills of Vermont.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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