St Peter's Cemetery (Petersfriedhof)
One of the oldest and loveliest Christian cemeteries in the world, its wrought iron graves and arcaded crypts pressed against the sheer Mönchsberg cliff. It inspired the film's famous graveyard escape, yet not a single frame of that scene was ever shot here.
Sobre este lugar
Tucked at the foot of the Mönchsberg beside the Benedictine abbey of St Peter, founded around the year 696 and the oldest monastery in the German speaking world, the Petersfriedhof is a jewel box of a graveyard. Delicate wrought iron crosses, climbing roses and immaculate little flower beds crowd between arcaded crypt chapels where Salzburg's leading families have been laid to rest for four centuries, while hermit catacombs carved straight into the cliff face look down from above. Mozart's gifted sister Nannerl, the composer Michael Haydn and the cathedral's architect Santino Solari all rest within these walls. Fans arrive expecting the very set of the von Trapps' tense graveyard hideout, but that heart stopping sequence was never filmed in Salzburg at all; it was recreated on a Hollywood soundstage in California, its designers simply borrowing the mood of these iron gates and arches. The real place is quieter, older and far more moving than the movie myth it unwittingly inspired.
Datos clave
- 696 AD — Around this year Saint Rupert founded the neighbouring St Peter's Abbey, the oldest monastery in the German speaking world
- 1627 year — The cemetery took its present walled and arcaded form under Prince Archbishop Paris Lodron, its iron grilles later copied by the film's set designers
- 0 frames — Frames of the movie were actually shot in this cemetery; the nerve wracking escape scene was rebuilt from scratch on a Hollywood soundstage