!!!Nonnberg

Nonnberg Mountain, foothills of the Moenchsberg mountain in the city 
of Salzburg. St. Rupert founded a Benedictine convent (the oldest 
nunnery in central Europe still in existence) between 712 and 715. The 
convent was constantly altered between the 13%%sup th/%  and the 
19%%sup th/%  century; the convent church was finished in 1099, the 
portal and the paradise with important Romanesque frescoes (1140/50) 
underneath the nuns´ choir have been preserved. After a fire 
(1423), the church was renovated in late Gothic style between 1464 and 
1507. Nonnberg side altar with pietà (1415/20), relief and 
Gothic panel paintings at the southern side altar (around 1515); large 
holdings in the museum, archives and library holdings (folding-chair 
from the 12%%sup th/%  century, mediaeval sculptures, many mediaeval 
manuscripts).

!Literature
R. v. Reichlin-Meldegg, Stift Nonnberg zu Salzburg im 
Wandel der Zeiten, 1953; H. Dopsch, Nonnberg, in: Geschichte Salzbg., 
vol. I/2, 1983.


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