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St Sebastian's Church Description
(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
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Hobbies & Activities category: Cemetery;  Christian sites;  Architecture - Baroque or Rococo
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