an abbess, to elicit assistance in his work from "devoted men and women". According to Kulzer, Erentrude experienced conflict at Worms, which strengthened her character and increased her desire for "mystical contemplation". She left her home country to help Rupert start religious communities in Salzburg; he built a convent, Nonnberg Abbey, near Salzburg in about 700, and installed her as its first abbess. Nonnberg Abbey, which was featured in the 1965 movie musical The Sound of Music, is the oldest Benedictine woman's community in what was then part of Germany. Several nuns from Worms might have come with her to Nonnberg. She taught them and the other nuns under her care " with all gentleness and wisdom". Caesarius' biographical sketch describes the work Erentrude and her nuns conducted at Nonnberg, which, as Kulzer states, went beyond the typical prayer and devotion of nuns at the time but was typical for Merovingian women who lived as cloistered nuns. Erentrude and the nuns at Nonnberg worked with the poor and the ill, which was the purpose and focus of their monastic existence, not self denial and humility characteristic of monastic life in later eras, and struck a balance between charitable works and contemplative ways of life. Kulzer reported that the wealth of convents during this era was distributed to the poor people who came to their doors daily, so the rules of claustration never prevented the nuns who lived there to minister to the poor and needy. Caesarius "praised [Erentrude's] great love for children", which she taught to the nuns at Nonnberg, and described her careful direction of her nuns and the young women under her care; by her example and instruction, trained them "to great piety" and "guided [them] with all gentleness and wisdom". Death and legacy According to Caesarius, in approximately early 718, St. Rupert, aware of his imminent death, requested that Erentrude visit him; when he told her, asking that she not tell anyone and that she would continue to pray for him, she asked that she die before him. When he rebuked her, she reminded him that she had left her home to follow him to Salzberg, so he agreed to intercede for her to join him after he died. Shortly after Rupert died in March 718, Caesarius reported that Erentrude, while interceding for him, saw a vision of him telling her it was time for her to