Kapuzinerkloster

This guide to the Kapuzinerkloster in Salzburg starts at the rough stone wall behind the altar, the last surviving piece of a medieval fortified tower called the Trompeterschlossl. It follows Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau's decision to hand that old fortification to the newly arrived Capuchin friars in the fifteen nineties, and the vow of poverty that shaped everything they built around it between around fifteen ninety-nine and sixteen oh five. You'll hear why the friars chose to fold a leftover military wall into their own church rather than raise a showpiece facade like their neighbors across the river. Look for the carved oak door panel on your way out, salvaged rather than commissioned.