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St. Peter's Abbey (Stift St. Peter) is the oldest monastery in the German-speaking world, founded by St. Rupert of Salzburg in 696 AD. The Romanesque-Baroque church, catacombs carved into the Mönchsberg cliff, and the adjacent Petersfriedhof cemetery form one of the city's most atmospheric ensembles.
St. Rupert received the ruined Roman town of Iuvavum (Salzburg) from the Bavarian Duke in 696 and founded both the abbey and the Nonnberg convent. The monastery has been continuously occupied by Benedictine monks for over 1,300 years.