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STROLLING THROUGH Kultural Heritage
SALZBURG- the royal – the bourgeois – the medieval- the Baroque- the modern … Salzburg, this grand, colorful city can best be explored on foot. Bikers also have it good here. They can find their way through the narrowest alleys and snake through the stands of the Grünmarkt.
Frenchman Christian Boltansky. Other magnificent and gorgeous items from the Middle Ages and Baroque era can be found in the cathedral museum and in the reconstructed Prince-Archbishops’ Chamber of Art & Wonders.
Around the cathedral, a wide array of delightful, seasonal events take place on cathedral, Residenzplatz, and Kapitelplatz squares: Locals as well as thousands of visitors frequent the St. Rupert‘ s
Photo hotspot: Stephan Balkenhol‘ s“ Sphaera” on the Kapitelplatz
Fair in autumn, the Christmas market in winter, the performances of Jedermann in summer, or Siemens‘ Festival Nights, where you can experience the operas of the Salzburg Festival in the open air. Adorning each of the three squares are sculptural masterpieces: the cathedral square is ennobled by the statue of the Virgin Mary( 1766- 1771) 14 and the Residenz fountain 9 on Residenzplatz square is the largest baroque fountain north of the Alps with its four horses snorting water, three atlases, and three dolphins. On the other side of the cathedral in Kapitelplatz square, water pours into the Horse Pond 5, and only a few meters away is Sphaera, a golden globe with a man standing above, a work of art by German sculptor Stephan Balkenhol. Sphaera is an especially popular place serving as a photo-opp backdrop for many Salzburg visitors. Very near the cathedral are Salzburg‘ s three other old, spiritual centers: the Franciscan Church 13 is Salzburg‘ s original parish church, the „ Church of Our Lady“. Before the Franciscans came to Salzburg in 1583, it was overseen by two women‘ s orders, the Domfrauen, and the Sisters of St. Peter. Like St. Peter‘ s archabbey, the Franciscan abbey still exists today. The Franciscans comfort the needy, and in St. Peter‘ s 12, the Benedictines have continued to live according to „ Ora et labora“ for 1300 years. Founded in 696 during the time of St. Rupert, the abbey features stylistic characteristics of the Romanesque period, the Baroque era, and – with the rock tomb, which houses the urn containing the remains of the skull of St. Rupert – also Classicism. The so-called catacombs, which served as hermitages in the Middle
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Ages, are cave-like recesses that lead into the rock wall of the Mönchsberg and where you can find the old St. Peter‘ s cemetery with its chapels and graves. The counterpart to the monastery of the Benedictine monks is the Nonnberg convent 3 founded in 714, where the niece of St. Rupert, Erentrude, was the first abbess. Reachable via the Kaigasse or the Nonntal, the short and steep path up to the monastery is already a sign that awaiting the visitor inside the walls of the monastery is a world far away from the noise of the city. The abundance of ornamentation inside the Gothic church, the unique crypt with freestanding pillars and especially distinctive ribbed vaults, and the rock tomb of St. Erentrude are some of the treasures that can be visited in this monastery. The greatest treasure, however, are the Romanesque frescoes from the middle of the 12th century.