Bürgerspitalkirche St. Blasius

This guide to the Bürgerspitalkirche St. Blasius in Salzburg starts with Archbishop Friedrich III of Leibnitz trading land to the Admont monks in 1327 for their chapel of Saint Blaise, turning it into the seed of the city's first public hospital for the sick, the old, and the poor. You'll hear why the church rebuilt in 1330 was given two separate doors, one for healthy townspeople and one for the hospital's own residents, and how a screened gallery was raised between 1410 and 1428 so the ill could hear mass apart from the crowd below. It follows that separation for nearly six hundred years, until the hospital's role finally changed. Look for the second door as you approach, set apart from the main entrance.