Petersfriedhof

The Petersfriedhof or St. Dwindle's Cemetery is together with the internment site at Nonnberg Abbey - the most seasoned burial ground in the Austrian city of Salzburg, situated at the foot of the Festungsberg with Hohensalzburg Castle. It is one of Salzburg's most prevalent vacation spots. Shut in 1878, the site rotted until in 1930 the priests of St. Dwindle's effectively asked for the affirmation of new burials. Its birthplaces go back to around 700, when the neighboring St. Dwindle's Abbey was set up by Saint Rupert of Salzburg.

The convent's graveyard, likely at the site of a significantly prior entombment put, was first specified in a 1139 deed, the most seasoned gravestone dates to 1288. Carved into the stone of the Festungsberg are mausoleums that may come from the Early Christian long stretches of Severinus of Noricum amid the Migration Period. They incorporate two houses of prayer: The Maximuskapelle and the Gertraudenkapelle, sanctified in 1178 under the Salzburg Archbishop Conrad of Wittelsbach and devoted to the killed Archbishop Thomas Becket of Canterbury. A second sanctuary, The Margarethenkapelle , re-worked in 1491, possesses a site in the focal point of the burial ground. You can come here to visit this place.