Sebastianskirche

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The driveway at number 41 was added Linzergasse church of St. Sebastian and St. Sebastian Cemetery, which is attached to this church. Here is Mozart family grave but Mausoleum of Prince Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau.

Nearby there is "Bruderhaus" which served as hospital and nursing home since the 15th century. St Sebastian was built in 1512 after he quit Cathedral Cemetery. Cemetery was old and was originally designed for poor people, those suffering from plague or for lepers, but won in importance by the church building.

Sebastianskirche is a baroque building, built between 1749 and Kassian Singer 1753, but has some elements in prince rococo decorations. A fire in 1818 destroyed much of the building, including the altar paintings and ceiling frescoes by Paul Troger. In yet Sebastianskirche three side altars besides the main shrine.

On the wall of the church entrance there is a statue of St. Sebastian's work Konrad Aspera between 1614 and 1620. This was used as a decorative gate Linzertor until the fortification of which it forms part was demolished in 1894.

On entering the cemetery of St Sebastian's tomb found Bombastus Theophrastus of Hohenheim, called Paracelsus. He died in 1541 in an inn on Kaigasse Salzburg. Other famous people buried here are father and wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Constanze and Leopold and Prince Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, who was refused a place in Salzburg Cathedral by Prince Archbishop Markus Sittikus successor.

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