St. Peter's Cemetery
Also known as Petersfriedhof
700
Baroque
landscape
Arcaded family vaults stand in a row against the rock at the foot of the cliff below Hohensalzburg fortress, closed with wrought-iron grilles and hung with epitaphs. The graveyard of St. Peter's Abbey is as old as the monastery, going…
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- 1615-1630
The arcaded burial vaults along the rock wall were raised in three campaigns between 1615 and 1630 and were largely the work of the master mason Christoph Gottsreiter. Their epitaphs and wrought-iron grilles range from the seventeenth to…
Christoph Gottsreiter
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