Place type
4 entries tagged Cemetery on Introducing Salzburg.
The Hallstatt charnel house holds over 1,200 skulls, most of them painted with floral patterns, names, and death dates by relatives who wanted to keep their dead identifiable after the bones were exhumed from the overcrowded churchyard. The practice continued into the 20th century. The most recent skull is dated 1995. This is not a horror attraction.
Salzburg's main municipal cemetery, laid out in the late 19th century in the tradition of the great park cemeteries. A wide, tree-lined landscape of gravelled paths, mature trees, and dignified monuments.
St. Peter's Cemetery in Salzburg has been continuously used since around 700 AD, making it one of the oldest Christian cemeteries in the German-speaking world. The graves press up against the cliff face of the Mönchsberg, where early Christian catacombs are carved directly into the rock.
Renaissance / Baroque
A 16th-century Italian garden cemetery on Linzer Gasse, containing the mosaic mausoleum of Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, the grave of Paracelsus, and the burial places of Leopold Mozart and Constanze Mozart. Completely different in character from Petersfriedhof.
