The nunnery of Stift Nonnberg, in which Fräulein Maria in "The Sound of Music" was in fact never a novice sits on an exposed spot just to the foot of the fortress, visible from almost every point of the city.The nunnery is often incorrectly referred to as "Stift Nonnbeb rg Abbey" and consists of the church Maria Himmelfahrt, the cloisters, a pillared hall, the convent itself, a kitchen court ...