Johannesschlössl

Pallottinerschlössl from Augustinerstraße

The Johannesschlössl is located on the Mönchsberg in Salzburg , easy to reach, on short, romantic footpaths, with the elevator to the Museum der Moderne or by car (very limited parking spaces). It used to be called Thennschlössl, Altschlössl or Dekanatsschlössl after its owners , today Pallottinerschlössl , and is the apostolate house and guest house of the Pallottine order (address Mönchsberg 24).

The ensemble Apostolatshaus der Pallottiner / Johannesschlößl with chapel and outbuildings is a listed building and is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Historic Center of the City of Salzburg .

history

Johannesschlössl: inner courtyard

Seat of nobility and dean

The Johannesschlössl was probably built in the late Middle Ages or in the 14th century.

A marble plaque in the chapel in the Johannesschlössl reports: "I, Johann Krafft von Weitting, dean of the cathedral at that time , (have) finished and rebuilt these chapels (!) In the 1603 Jar" after (!) " Archbishop of Salzburg Wolf Dietrich this castle was incorporated into the cathedral dean " . (presumably by donation)

Around 1565 Georg Tenn was the first known owner of the Thennschlössl . After the Thenn family, it was owned by Ludwig Alt, Salome Alt's father ; the only daughter Magdalena married the princely councilor and sub -marshal Sebastian von Haunsperg in 1586 and therefore the castle became haunspergian for a short time.

Prince Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau acquired it from the Haunsperg family in 1589 , expanded it, refurbished it and added a pleasure garden, a riding arena and stylish furnishings including a. a. Coffered ceilings to a summer seat. The Prince Archbishop also built the eponymous St. John's Chapel. The archbishop's peace and quiet was so often disturbed here that he exchanged the Thennschlössl in 1595 for a town plot that belonged to the cathedral chapter (i.e. the deanery ) (hence the name Dekanatsschlössl ).

First took over the property in 1595 Domdechant Anton von Thun. In 1603 - as a preserved plaque attests - Johann Krafft von Weitting renovated the chapel consecrated after St. John the Baptist as cathedral dean . In 1678, cathedral dean Christoph von Liechtenstein exchanged his place of residence in the "Dekanatsschlössl" with the Countess Huggentalschen Schloss Schönleiten . The Schlössl was subsequently used by officials of the cathedral chapter. In 1653 a new cistern was built.

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  Memorial plaque to Johann Krafft von Weitting (1603)

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  Coat of arms of Archbishop Max Gandolf Kuenburg (1683) on the Johannesschlössl

Soldiers' quarters

In 1678 the property was acquired by the "Hohen Salzburger Landschaft" (state estates), which housed soldiers and their families in the building; A school for the children of the soldiers was also set up, with a corporal or corporal serving as a teacher who also performed sacristan services in the castle chapel. After the soldiers, invalids moved in here, and later prisoners for a short time. It was also used as a hospital and for the soldiers' recreation.

Factory and inn

After the prince-archbishop's landscape was abolished, it came into the possession of the camera operator in 1816, who auctioned it to Josef Reischauer in 1843. After a few intermediate owners, the castle was acquired by Ludwig Achleitner in 1858, who set up a match factory here and, from 1859, an inn. The property came from Achleitner's heirs in 1884 to Anna Reichl, who renovated the castle, furnished new apartments and used it as an inn again.

Colonel Paschkoff's time

Pallottinerschlössl: inner courtyard in winter

In 1892 the Russian Colonel Basilius von Paschkoff bought the castle, a very wealthy man who owned several mines in the Urals. He had the property extensively renovated and expanded by the architect Karl Demel. A spiral staircase was built into the rear of the central wing, the tower was raised and a completely new building in the neo-renaissance style with a large hall (as a new castle chapel) on the mezzanine floor was built in front of the old central wing. After the October Revolution , many Russian emigrants lived here. Field Marshal Mannerheim , who had stopped the Bolsheviks in Finland, was among his guests ; and Serge Jaroff , founder of Donkosakenchors, was among the guests here. Paschkoff's nephew Michael Saskowitsch, later a world-class tennis player, grew up here with his uncle after 1920. Colonel Paschkoff himself became impoverished and had to eke out his old age as a taxi driver in Paris .

Apostolate and guest house of the Pallottines

In 1926, the acquired Pallottiner the Johannes Schlössl by Paschkoff (as well as the adjacent thereto sutler Schlössl ) and directed it for their theologians who studied in Salzburg, a (henceforth mission house St. John called). Until 1941 it was the seminary of the southern German Pallottine Province. In 1941 the palace was confiscated by the Salzburg Nazi government and the Pallottines were expelled.

On November 17, 1944, part of the south wing was destroyed by a bomb attack, and the baroque Johanneskapelle was also badly damaged. In 1945 the castle was used as a reception camp for wounded soldiers. A year later, the first plans were made to rebuild the house. The reconstruction took years. It was not until 1954 that the Johannesschlössl was completed and inaugurated and served as an apostolate and novitiate (today the Marketenderschlössl). The parish Vinzenz Pallotti Lehen is also looked after from here. Ten years later, the palace was given a new chapel according to plans by city architect Franz Wagner. This was inaugurated in November 1964 in honor of John the Evangelist .

Today the Johannesschlössl is a religious guest house ( Cambio and Evangelization Center Salzburg - EZS, House Mönchsberg No. 22) and is open to individual guests or groups who are looking for peace and quiet.

literature

• P. Wilfried Kunz SAC: The history of the Pallottines in Salzburg. Taking into account the Austrian Regio of the Holy Spirit. 75 years Pallottinger in Johannesschlößl, Pallottiner Regio Austria, Salzburg 2001.
• Editors Batei: Manageable, unique: a walk through Mülln. In Bastei - Magazin des Stadtverein Salzburg, 64th year (winter 1015) , pp. 7-14.

Web links

Commons : Johannesschlössl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Johannes-Schlössl the Pallottine

proof

• Where we are: Johannes-Schlößl , website of the Pallottines
• Adolf Frank: The Mönchsberg and its buildings. In: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde, 70, 1930, pp. 1-44.
• Christian F. Uhlir (Ed.): Salzburg City Mountains. Mönchsberg - Kapuzinerberg - Festungsberg - Nonnberg - Rainberg. edition Winterwork, Salzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86468-033-5 .

• Johannesschlössl . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .

1. ↑ For a historical photo, see Johannes_Schloesl_06.jpg ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , to Our House ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , johannes-schloessl.at  
2. ↑ Indication of the patronage according to the parish Salzburg-Mülln , Regesta Ecclesiastica Salisburgensia, res.icar-us.eu
3. ↑ Herz-Jesu-Provinz der Pallottiner, Department of Public Relations (Ed.): Inauguration of the novitiate of the Pallottines in Salzburg. Press kit, October 2, 2009 ( pdf ( memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), pallottiner.org).

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 8 ″  N , 13 ° 1 ′ 59 ″  E