Petersfriedhof Salzburg

The Petersfriedhof is next to the cemetery of the monastery Nonnberg the oldest Christian burial ground in Salzburg. Due to its vicinity at the foot of the rock of the castle mountain and its picturesque surroundings, which opens up new perspectives again and again, the Petersfriedhof became a favorite subject of painting and poetry of the 19th century.

The cemetery St. Peter is maximum possibly the same age because the monastery St. Peter itself, so goes lower back to the time around the year 700. But even inside the time of the migration of peoples there was a cemetery in this room. At first, the cemetery was supposed only for participants of the monastery. A first documented proof is the awarding of burial rights via Archbishop Konrad I von Abensberg on March 22, 1139th The cemetery become then probable smaller than nowadays or had a distinct shape, for the reason that inside the area between the cross chapel and the collegiate church at that time the monastery of St. Peter stood. The oldest surviving tombstone of this cemetery is that of Abbot Dietmar.