Edmundsburg, Protected monument on Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria.
Edmundsburg is a three-story cubic building topped with a pyramid roof and an octagonal lantern, positioned above the Salzburg Festival halls. The structure stands atop Mönchsberg with views down toward the city below.
Construction took place between 1694 and 1696 under master builder Lorenz Stumpfegger, commissioned by Abbot Edmund Sinnhuber of St Peter's Abbey. This building was part of the baroque expansion of the monastery during that era.
Above the entrance portal, the letters read "Edmundus Abbas Sancti Petri", naming the builder, Abbot Edmund Sinnhuber of St Peter's Abbey. The building served as the abbots' summer residence and later as a pension for worthy monastery servants; by 1711 it was already let to tenants.
The building is reached on foot via the Clemens-Holzmeister-Stiege, or by lift whose entrance lies in the Mönchsbergparkgarage at Toscaninihof. The university uses the Edmundsburg today, so interiors are generally not open as a visitor attraction.
The second lightning rod in Salzburg was erected on the Edmundsburg on 12 May 1786 under the supervision of Father Dominicus Beck; the first stood on Mirabell Palace. The building had already been rented to tenants by 1711, when complaints about the water supply and inadequate drains left several rooms uninhabitable.
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