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Perched on a shoulder of the Festungsberg beneath Hohensalzburg Fortress, Stift Nonnberg is a Benedictine convent founded by Saint Rupert around the year 714, making it the oldest continuously operating nunnery in the German-speaking world. For more than thirteen centuries its sisters have lived here in enclosure, and the church, rebuilt in soaring late Gothic style after a medieval fire, shelters some of the oldest frescoes in Austria as well as the crypt tomb of Salzburg's patron saint, Erentrude. For most visitors, though, Nonnberg means one woman: Maria Augusta Kutschera, who entered as a postulant in 1924 and was lent out by the abbey to tutor a sick von Trapp child, later returning to these gates to ask the sisters whether she should accept Georg's proposal of marriage. The outer walls and courtyard also served as the real location for the abbey scenes in The Sound of Music, even though the cloistered interior forced the studio to recreate the convent on a Hollywood soundstage.
Fatti principali
- 714 year — Founded by Saint Rupert, making it the oldest continuously operating convent in the German-speaking world
- 1927 year — The real Maria married Georg von Trapp in this abbey church that November
- 7 children — Georg von Trapp's children from his first marriage, the family the film made world famous