Freyschlössl
The Freyschlössl , (also Frey-Turm or Freyburg, old name: Roter Turm ) at Mönchsberg No. 15 north of the Oskar-Kokoschka-Weg is a fortification tower on the way from the Hohensalzburg Fortress to Richterhöhe .
history
The Red Tower was probably built in the late 13th century to protect the gap between Mönchs- and Festungsberg and the city gate there. On the occasion of legal disputes between the monastery and the archbishop in 1372, it was made clear that "Rote Thurn" and the nearby "Abtsthurn" had been in the monastery since time immemorial. The high tower had a square floor plan, it was covered with a pyramid roof, which also protected the overhanging battlement on the top floor of the tower. With the lower abbot tower , it was probably connected to a rear defensive wall, both towers forming the corner points of a kennel. With the new Lodron defensive wall, the tower largely lost its military importance. Until 1821 the property with its dairy belonged to St. Peter's Monastery .
The design of the Red Tower was largely retained until the beginning of the 19th century; a cowshed was later built on its north side, above was a wooden hayloft and a leaf hut was built on. There was also a covered cistern. With the property belonging to it, the property formed the dairy at the red tower , which the monastery gave to tenants. Since the income from the leases was very low, Abbot Albert Nagenzaun sold the dairies in 1821. The rain roof maker Theresia Reiter was awarded the contract. As a result, the ownership changed quickly.
This changed when the tower was acquired by Carl von Frey (1826-1896) on March 22, 1862. He had the palace renovated inside and outside in the spirit of romanticism by the builder J. Götz in a neo-Gothic style and the garden surrounded with a new fence. At the inauguration on June 11, 1863, the members of the "Flögelwarte" sang (an association that had been founded by the doctor Carl Flögel to maintain choral singing and classical music). Its owner was able to house his historical collections in the castle. The geographer Eduard Richter married Juli von Frey in 1872, the only daughter from Carl von Frey's marriage to his wife Anna Gugg. However, Juli von Frey died in 1873 giving birth to her daughter. But there were four other brothers who could take over the property. After the death of Carl von Frey, the castle came to Maximilian von Frey , a German-Austrian physiologist, in 1897 . Until 2009, a 70-year-old Freys descendant lived with her cats in the already very wet rooms of the castle.
Freyschlössl today
Freyschlössl: outbuilding
Freyschlössl: back
Frey Schlössl: Total investment of the fortress Hohensalzburg from
Frey Schlössl: Total investment of the fortress Hohensalzburg from
The Freyschlössl today
In 2009, the 83-year-old Matthias Kaindl, who runs the Kaindl Holzindustrie company together with his brother Ernst, acquired the property and has had it restored at great expense since then - since large parts of it were already severely impaired. A glass dome roof was installed on the tower and a concrete extension was added next to the tower. The garden, also below the Oskar-Kokoschka-Weg, was newly fenced and a wooden “gatehouse” was built.
literature
- Adolf Frank: The Mönchsberg and its buildings . In: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde, 70, 1930, pp. 1-44, online .
- Christian F. Uhlir (Ed.): Salzburg City Mountains. Mönchsberg - Kapuzinerberg - Festungsberg - Nonnberg - Rainberg. 2011, Salzburg: edition Winterwork, ISBN 978-3-86468-033-5 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 47 '43.3 " N , 13 ° 2' 35.7" E