place
St. Peter's Abbey, Salzburg
St. Peter's
also: St. Peter, Stift St. Peter, St. Peters
One of the oldest monasteries in the German-speaking world (founded c. 696 AD), located at the foot of the Mönchsberg in Salzburg. Trakl lived steps away and the monastery's cemetery and church are woven into his Salzburg landscape.
Reading notes
- Sebastian in Dream §8 St. Peter's autumnal graveyard
St. Peter's Churchyard (Petersfriedhof) in Salzburg, one of the oldest cemeteries in the German-speaking world; Trakl walked there as a child and it became his central image of autumnal death-meditation.