Greiffeneggschlössle (Freiburg im Breisgau)
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The Greiffeneggschlössle is one of the most famous viewpoints in the city of Freiburg . It is located on the Schlossberg at 300 m above the Schwabentor and below the Kanonenplatz. From there you have a view starting with the Black Forest over the entire city to the Vosges and the Kaiserstuhl . Today a restaurant with beer garden is housed in the buildings.
history
In 1805, the last Austrian government president of the House of Habsburg, Hermann von Greiffenegg, had his retirement home built on a nose of the Schlossberg and the ruins of Vauban 's fortress. The site had been in his possession since 1791. The building was built as a country house in the Empire style and was intended to serve as a retirement home for Greiffenegg. When Freiburg came to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1805, Greiffenegg resigned his offices after 45 years of loyal service to the House of Austria and at the age of 68, depressed, retired to his silent sanctuary , as he called it, and had it carved into a stone next to the entrance: Qvieti Sacrum, Herm. de Greiffenegg, anno MDCCCV .
Von Greiffenegg only lived in the house for two years until his death. His son Hermann Gottlob von Greiffenegg , who led an unsteady life as a soldier and diplomat due to many places of work, inherited the building and lived in it from 1833 to 1840, until he sold it to the wife of the brewer and later city councilor Franz Schaich for financial reasons. After that, it has been used as a guest establishment until today, from 1841 to 1908 in connection with the Schlossberg brewery, which no longer exists today and which was located directly below the castle. Today the town's enforcement service is located at the former location of the brewery. The name Schlösschen for the house on the Schlossberg is mentioned in writing for the first time in the “address calendar for the year 1854” .
In 1876 the commercial part of the site was sold to the brewer Georg Stratz, whose widow sold it to the brewer Georg Rommel in 1885. At that time the country house was not called Greiffenegg-Schlössle after its builder, but rather the Stratz'sche and the Rommels'sche Schlössle after the respective owners. The city set the name Greiffenegg-Schlössle as a business name in 1914 after it had acquired the property at a foreclosure auction in 1902.
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The lithograph by Michael Wachter shows the Greiffenegg-Schlössle from around 1897 with the outbuildings. The music pavilion with two turrets and the wooden garden halls that existed at the time can also be seen. Both were demolished in 1910. The turret in front of the main building, of which only the substructure still exists today, is interesting. This contained a pinhole camera ( camera obscura ). The Schwabentor , which has not yet been raised, can also be seen on the lithograph .
particularities
There are two interesting stories about the castle. Both date from the time of Hermann Gottlob von Greiffenegg, the son of the builder. After his second wedding to Agathe Mauch, the daughter of a Freiburg master saddler, her sister Josepha also moved to the Schlossberg. This gave rise to wild rumors in Freiburg society within a very short time. When a doctor friend of mine in Venice in 1825 made derogatory comments on the ménage à trois , Gottlob von Greiffenegg killed his friend in a duel. Plagued by remorse, Greiffenegg took his friend's daughter, who had been an orphan, into his house. The second story is linked to the first, because when the girl allegedly found out after a few years who had killed her father, she threw herself to her death from the Schlössle. This suicide has never been solved.
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- Badische Zeitung, January 3, 2011, Manfred Gallo, Above the roofs of the city, The Greiffeneggschlößchen on the Schloßberg has existed for more than 200 years.
- Badische Zeitung, November 26, 2005, Joachim Röderer
literature
Peter Paul Albert : The Greiffenegg Schlössle and its secret . In: Freiburger Almanach 1953, pp. 21–24. Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 33.6 ″ N , 7 ° 51 ′ 19.8 ″ E
