Grasmayr Villa
The Grasmayr Villa , originally called Hofenburg, but also called Arnoldsschlössl or Endresvilla, is an architecturally idiosyncratic building on the Karolinenhöhe of the Mönchsberg in Salzburg (Mönchsberg No. 18).
history
In the area of today's Grasmayr Villa, the cathedral vicar and cathedral ceremonial Johann Baptist Hofer (consistorial, court court and court chamber advocate) owned a garden in 1656, in which a "powder pound", a factory for the manufacture of gunpowder , was set up during wartime . In 1664, Hofer received a small piece of land from St. Peter's Monastery , for which he received permission from the castle captain and the court chamber on February 1 and March 16, 1666, respectively, to build a wooden summer house with a chimney. Soon, however, he expanded it into a real house with a stable, cellar, etc., for which he had to pay inheritance interest to the monastery of St. Peter. After the cathedral vicar's death, the Gütl “Hoferburg” was handed over to Katharina Eggl, who was married to master tailor Daniel Kleiner, on March 11, 1678. They sold the property to court judge Veit Arnold and his wife Barbara Burghart in 1680, who then offered the landscape castle for sale. In addition to the summer house, cellar, cowshed, threshing floor and hay barn, the property also included a grain box standing at the height. The landscape in turn handed the property back to St. Peter against the right to use a quarry and exempt the property from castle rights . The monastery then gave the estate or dairy to tenants. When the property, then known as Schatteinermeierei , was auctioned by the monastery in 1822, the Kirchberger couple bought it on January 26, 1822. On February 27, 1831, the estate burned down due to arson (a fire that had not broken out completely had already started two days earlier, as a result of which two cows were suffocated). As a result, the owners changed relatively quickly.
In 1865 the property was bought by M. Georg Gaskell, an English landscape painter who lived in Cairo in winter and in Salzburg in summer. He had the house rebuilt in 1868 in the English villa style. In 1895 the property passed to his widow, in 1900 to Heinrich Endres and in 1908 again to his widow Lidwina.
The writer, elementary school teacher and globetrotter Alois Grasmayr acquired the house with his wife Magda (from the Mautner Markhof family ) in 1915. He had a marble coat of arms of Paris Lodron affixed to the newly built double-armed staircase . In 1930 further additions were made and a new viewing area with the typical rotating globe was built. The house is still owned by the Grasmayr family today.
The Grasmayr Villa today
Eduard Bäumer , painter and teacher at the Vienna Academy of Applied Arts, born in Kastellaun in the Hunsrück in 1892 , had lived in the Grasmayr Villa in Salzburg since 1933 because he had fled Germany from the National Socialist regime. In 1936 he and his family moved to Mönchsberg, where Bäumer had a huge studio in the Grasmayr Villa. In 1944 he had to retire to Grossarl because his life and his family were in mortal danger because of his Jewry. There the pastor Balthasar Linsinger took care of the family and protected them from persecution. U lived closest a. the art historian and educator Ludwig Prähauser (1877–1961), after whom the route to the vigilante group was named.
literature
- 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. 2011, Salzburg: edition Winterwork, ISBN 978-3-86468-033-5 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 47 '46.2 " N , 13 ° 2' 25.4" E