Salzburg - St Sebastian's Church

(Local Name: Sebastianskirche) The broad Staatsbrücke crosses the river to the Platzl, around which an outlying bridgehead settlement had grown up by the 12th C. On the left side of the Linzer Gasse, which leads from the Platzl in a northeasterly direction, stands St Sebastian's Church (Sebastianskirche), built in 1502-12, completely remodeled in Roccoco style 1749-53. A flight of steps (on the wall to the left note the monument of the physician and philosopher Theophrastus Paracelsus, 1493-1541) leads up to the interesting St Sebastian Cemetery (Friedhof) established in 1595-1600 on the model of an Italian campo santo. In the middle of the cemetery stands St Gabriel's Chapel (Gabrielskapelle), with ornate ceramic decoration in the interior, built 1597-1603 as a mausoleum for Archbishop Wolf Dietrich (d. 1617). On the path to the chapel lie the graves of Mozart's father Leopold (1717-87), Mozart's widow Konstanze (1763-1842, remarried name von Nissen) and Genoveva von Weber (d. 1798), mother of the composer Carl Maria von Weber. To the west of the church is a passage leading to the Loreto Convent (Loretokloster) and Paris-Lodron-Strasse.