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Nonnberg Abbey (German: Stift Nonnberg) is a Benedictine monastery in Salzburg, Austria. [1] Founded c. 712/715 by Saint Rupert of Salzburg, it is the oldest continuously existing nunnery in the German-speaking world.
- The von Trapps only had to cross the railroad tracks behind their villa—not the Alps—to escape the Nazis. The Trapp Family Singers on tour in 1940. In the climactic scene of “The Sound of Music,” the von Trapps flee Salzburg, Austria, under the cover of night and hike across the surrounding mountains to safety in Switzerland.
- The names and ages of the real von Trapp children were changed for the film. In actuality, the eldest von Trapp child was not 16-going-on-17-year-old Liesl, but Rupert, who was born in 1911 and a practicing physician by the time the family fled Austria in 1938.
- Maria worked as a tutor to one von Trapp child, not a governess to them all. In 1926, Georg von Trapp’s second-oldest daughter, Maria, contracted scarlet fever—the same disease that took the life of his first wife four years earlier—and could no longer walk the four miles to school.
- The von Trapps married more than a decade before they fled Austria. Unlike in the film when they wed as the Nazis were taking control of Austria in 1938, 47-year-old Georg von Trapp and 22-year-old Maria wed more than a decade earlier on November 26, 1927.
Nonnberg Abbey as a Hollywood model. The monastery gained international fame through its novice Maria Kutschera. Her abbess sent her to be a governess to the widowed Baron Georg Ritter von Trapp to look after his seven children. Shortly afterwards, Maria married the baron and founded a family choir in the early 1930s.
- Nonnberggasse 2, Salzburg, 5020, AT
- info@salzburg.info
- 0662 841607
The von Trapps come to the Town of Salzburg. In 1923, Georg Ritter von Trapp, an officer in the former Imperial and Royal navy and recently widowed, moved into a villa in the Aigen neighbourhood of Salzburg with his seven children, where they all lived for the next 15 years.
- Auerspergstraße 6, Salzburg, 5020
- info@salzburg.info
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.
- The Benedictine Abbey Nonnberg is located on the eastern foothills of the Festungsberg beneath the Salzburg Fortress.Nonnberg Abbey is accessible f...
- Maria Auguste Kutschera was a novice at Nonnberg Abbey. She was sent to care for the children of the widowed Georg Baron von Trapp as a governess....
- The abbey itself cannot be visited.The abbey church and the cemetery are open to the public. The church is usually open all day long. Depending on...
- Services open to the public: 24 December at 11.00 pm: Christmas mass Palm Sunday at 8.00 am with palm parade Maundy Thursday at 6.00 pm Good Friday...
Aug 6, 2022 · Nonnberg Abbey (also known as Stift Nonnberg) is one of the most well-known sites in Salzburg. Founded in the early 8th century, it is the oldest nunnery that still exists in the German-speaking world. It also features in the 1965 musical, The Sound of Music, and is where the real Maria von Trapp lived while preparing to become a nun. Today ...
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