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Benedictine Nonnberg Abbey lies a little above the city at the foot of the Festungsberg and is famous for its Gothic architectural elements and its murals and smaller works of art. It is also here that the story told in the Hollywood production of “The Sound of Music” begins.
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Nonnberg Abbey (German: Stift Nonnberg) is a Benedictine monastery in Salzburg, Austria. Founded c. 712/715 by Saint Rupert of Salzburg, it is the oldest continuously existing nunnery in the German-speaking world.
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Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg is the oldest existing nunnery in the German-speaking region and became world-famous through the film The Sound of Music. History of Nonnberg Abbey. The nunnery was founded sometime between 712 and 715 by Saint Bishop Rupert of Salzburg on a terrace of the Salzburg Fortress Mountain.
Nonnberg Nunnery - Stift Nonnberg "Abbey". The nunnery of Stift Nonnberg, in which Fräulein Maria in "The Sound of Music" was in fact never a novice sits on an exposed spot just to the foot of the fortress, visible from almost every point of the city.
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