The Benedictine Abbey was founded by St. Rupert in the year 690. To 1110, in the Abbey of the residence of the archbishops.

The Abbey of St. Peter is a complex of buildings of the XVII-XVIII with three courtyards and monastic Church. The interior of the Abbey Church of St. Peter is decorated with ornaments in the form of shells. The painting of the main altar and 16 of the side altars made by the master of Krems M. I. Schmidt. In the right nave with 1444 relics of the patron Saint of Salzburg St. Rupert. Survived also Beautiful statue of the Madonna of the XV century.

Near the monastery is the oldest city cemetery with Romanesque and Gothic chapels, fences and monuments of wrought iron. In the rock since early Christian times, preserved catacombs, where they lived a hermit monk.