St. Michael Kirche
Small pink medieval church folded seamlessly into a row of Old Town houses.
This guide to St. Michael Kirche in Salzburg opens with a puzzle: guidebooks date the city's oldest church to around the year 800, yet the earliest surviving document is from 813, a gap historians have never closed. You'll hear how the church survived two fires, in 823 and 1167, once ran as two stacked churches split between emperor and townspeople, and was wrapped in a Baroque skin by Abbot Beda Seeauer between 1767 and 1776. It follows how those later builders folded the sanctuary directly into the row of houses along the square rather than leaving it freestanding. Look for the narrow pink front squeezed between the shopfronts as you pass.
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