Kapuzinerberg

Kapuzinerberg is a slope on the eastern bank of the Salzach waterway in Salzburg, Salzburgerland, Austria, which ascends to a height of 640 meters. The Kapuzinerberg is the area of a Capucine's house worked in 1599-1605 on the site of a medieval stronghold, the "Trompeterschlossl". Most punctual human settlements on the eastern incline of Kapuzinerberg go back to the Neolithic period. Huge ancient settlements on mountain go back to 1100 B.C. In transit of the Linzergasse to the religious community are standing 13 speeches with the method for the cross, which were developed in the vicinity of 1736 and 1744, a remembrance put for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the old Paschinger Schlossl, known as the previous place of Stefan Zweig.

The distinctive old gunnery bastions from 1629, which are appropriated around the mountain, the military pinnacle of the Felixpforte and the long military dividers with their little sustained towers likewise were worked in the season of the Thirty Years' War, and are larger part are kept well. On the peak of the mountain, feasible with a drawbridge, there stands the Franziskischlossl. Today it is a little eatery. Adolf Hitler needed to set up a monstrous Gauburg, a stadium and a celebration house on that mountain. The finish of the war prevented it be that as it may and the Kapuzinerberg is sans still of concentrated land improvement.