Mönchsberg#

Moenchsberg Mountain, in the City of Salzburg, running from southeast to northwest, on the left bank of the River Salzach, opposite the Kapuzinerberg Hill; a conglomerate of the Mindel/Riss interglacial period ( Ice Age), dropping on all sides in steep slopes into the Salzachtal valley, with wooded plateau at top. Hohensalzburg Castle (with funicular railway) is situated on its highest point (540 m) in the southeast, and the convent on Nonnberg Mountain in its eastern foothills. The Moenchsberg face in the east, about 50 m high, rises vertically directly from the city centre (danger of falling rocks, last disastrous rockslide 1669). The Catacombs of St. Peter´s cemetery, the Felsenreitschule, the "Neutor" (a 131-m-long tunnel, built in 1765 and enlarged several times, connecting the old, historical city centre and the suburbs of Riedenburg and Maxglan, west of Moenchsberg), large underground parking garages, part of the Main Festival Hall and an elevator are built into rock walls. On the plateau, old fortifications (former powder magazines, "civic militia"), parks, lookout terraces, restaurants, water reservoir, a street, villas, etc. have been built.