Kapuzinerberg stefan zweig biographies
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Stefan Zweig Centre Salzburg
Stefan Zweig Centre Salzburg in the Edmundsburg conveys knowledge about the life and work of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.
Stefan Zweig's Salzburg years
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was an important writer, translator, literary mediator and pacifist. From 1919 to 1934 he lived in Salzburg in the so-called 'Paschinger Schlössl' on the Kapuzinerberg, a period considered the most successful in his literary career. His novella collections Amok (1922) and Verwirrung der Gefühle (1927), the work Sternstunden der Menschheit (1927) and his biographies of Joseph Fouché (1929) and Marie Antoinette (1932), which brought him worldwide fame, became particularly well known. From Salzburg, Stefan Zweig travelled throughout Europe. He initiated international publishing and journal projects and wrote petitions for European understanding with his friends throughout Europe.
Stefan Zweig Centre
The Stefan Zweig Centre is located in the Edmundsburg, a 17th century building above the Felsenreitschule. The Stefan Zweig Centre was founded in 2008 at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg and is supported by the City and Province of Salzburg. It serves as a centre for science, literature and art, with a special focus on the life and work of Stefan Zweig. The
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Kapuzinerberg & Monastery Salzburg
Due to the nearly pristine nature and the dense forest, a large variety of fauna and flora can be found on the Kapuzinerberg. Chamois, deer, badgers and pine martens are still indigenous.
During the Middle Ages a military tower built by the quarrelsome archbishops as a part of a fortification system was located on the Kapuzinerberg on the site of the present Capuchin Monastery. The fortified structure was called the "Trompeterschlössl". When Prince Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau called the Capuchin monks to Salzburg in 1594 he decided to transform the Trompeterschlössl into a monastery and church in which to settle the order.
If one climbs the Kapuzinerberg from the Linzergasse the way is lined by six Baroque Stations of the Cross which were built by various Salzburg artists between 1736 and 1744. The graphic scenes and figures in the Passion Chapel document Christ's Passion, culminating in a mightly cruxifixion group on the mound. The "Felixpforte" or Felix Gate, commissioned to be built by Prince Archbishop Paris Lodron in 1632 is located half-way up and affords the wanderer the first magnificent view of the city.
The other path to the monastery leads up the Imbergstiege past St. John's Chapel. Both paths meet at the so-cal
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