Bergschlössl
The Bergschlössl in Linz's Volksgarten district is a baroque building that was built between 1717 and 1718.
history
In the 15th century, the area belonged to the so-called Stockhof , a sovereign fiefdom, and was bought by the city of Linz in 1708 to mine clay and build a brick barn.
In 1717/18 the master builder Johann Michael Prunner from Linz built the Bergschlössl for the legal counsel and secretary Johann Jakob Mäderer von Ehrenreichscron on part of this area . A wall with a three-door portal surrounded the house and garden.
The baroque building came into the possession of the Jesuit College Nordico in 1777 , which laid out a botanical garden that quickly became known for its variety of plants. But as early as 1787, Emperor Joseph II closed the order. A farmer bought the Bergschlössl at auction, cleared parts of the botanical garden, sold plots and planted fields.
In the following years, the castle changed hands several times: Bishop Sigismund Ernst von Hohenwart , Johann Gottfried Graf von Thürheim , Count Johann Anton von Weißenwolff, Graf Gottfried Clam, and Graf Otto von Hohenfeld were the owners one after the other. In 1902 the industrialist Robert Weingärtner bought the Bergschlössl and had the palace and park redesigned. The Art Nouveau conservatory at the main entrance dates from this period. Towards the end of the Second World War, the Bergschlössl was no longer inhabited and the garden was no longer cultivated.
In 1986 the city of Linz bought the Bergschlössl, which almost fell victim to a fire in 1987. A comprehensive renovation was carried out between 1992 and 1998 by the architect Peter Riepl. In 1999 the building was reopened.
description
The house, located in a large park, consists of three floors with 9 rooms. The wall paintings in the Sala Terena on the ground floor, for which the then newly laid out palace park served as a template, as well as the paintings in the Oktagon room and the Pompeian bath on the first floor date from the 18th century .
Baroque inscription
The entrance portal facing the city is headed with a short baroque poem. The inscription reads (original spelling):
"Man may pull the pallets / With the most beautiful Mahlerey
XeuXis May lead the Pemsel / It's just a copey
against what forest and felt / In the original Vorstelt"
Todays use
The building, which has belonged to the city of Linz since 1986, is managed by the Design Center Linz Betriebsgesellschaft and is rented to the LIMAK Austrian Business School . It is mainly used for receptions, banquets, seminars, etc.
The Bergschlössl Park
The park was laid out in the 18th century under the leadership of Johann Ignaz Schiffermüller , one of the most successful natural historians of the time. The purpose of the facility was a botanical nature trail for the Nordico. The approximately 2.5 hectare park, which is laid out according to ecological criteria, has been under the supervision and maintenance of the Linz city gardens of the municipal authorities since 1989 and is one of the first botanical-ecological parks in Upper Austria. The site is freely accessible to the public. According to the tree population recorded in the city gardens in 2007, there were 54 different tree species in the park. A few rarities such as an American tulip tree and Asian yew trees on both sides of the terrace date from the time of Schiffermüller . Of the 400 individual trees, Norway maples and ash trees are the most common. Stone figures of Ceres , putti with fruits and vases decorate the garden.
Others
On September 12, 1784, the physics professor Franz Racher launched two simple, unmanned balloons in the park of the Schlössl in the wake of the euphoria after the balloon launch of the Montgolfier brothers (Paris 1873), which was reported in the Ordinari newspaper in Linz .
Web links
- Entry via Bergschlössl to Burgen-Austria
- Bergschlössl. In: burgenkunde.at.
- Bergschlössl. In: design-center.at.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stockhofstrasse. In: stadtgeschichte.linz.at.
- ↑ a b c d e f From the Baroque to the present day - 300 years of Bergschlößlpark. In: botanischergarten.linz.at.
- ↑ This is probably Zeuxis of Herakleia
Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '27.1 " N , 14 ° 17' 8.4" E