Petersfriedhof

Petersfriedhof Salzburg

Petersfriedhof Salzburg

Burial site in Salzburg, Austria

The Petersfriedhof or St. Peter's Cemetery is – together with the burial site at Nonnberg Abbey – the oldest cemetery in the Austrian city of Salzburg, located at the foot of the Festungsberg with Hohensalzburg Castle. It is one of Salzburg's most popular tourist attractions.

St. Peter's Cemetery with catacombs

Closed in 1878, the site decayed until in 1930 the monks of St. Peter's successfully urged for the admission of new burials.[clarification needed]

History

Catacomb chapel

Its origins date back to about 700, when the adjacent St. Peter's Abbey (Stift St. Peter) was established by Saint Rupert of Salzburg. The abbey's cemetery, probably at the site of an even earlier burial place, was first mentioned in an 1139 deed, the oldest tombstone dates to 1288.[citation needed]

Catacombs

Carved into the rock of the Festungsberg are catacombs that may stem from the Early Christian days of Severinus of Noricum during the Migration Period. They include two chapels: The Maximuskapelle and the Gertraudenkapelle, consecrated in 1178 under the Salzburg Archbishop Conrad of Wittelsbach and dedicated to the assassinated Archbishop Thomas Becket of Canterbury.[citation needed]

A second chapel, The Margarethenkapelle (Margaret Chapel), (re-)built in 1491, occupies a site in the center of the cemetery.[citation needed]

Notable burials

View to Hohensalzburg Castle
Gravestone of General Harry J. Collins in Salzburg
Grave of Clemens Holzmeister

Other cemeteries in Salzburg

  • Salzburger Kommunalfriedhof
  • Sebastiansfriedhof
  • Jüdischer Friedhof Salzburg
  • Friedhof Maxglan
  • Friedhof Aigen
  • Friedhof Gnigl
  • Friedhof Leopoldskron
  • Friedhof Morzg
  • Friedhof Liefering
  • Friedhof Mülln
  • Friedhof des Stiftes Nonnberg
  • Soldatenfriedhof im Nonntaler Donnenbergpark

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