Fuschl Castle

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Fuschl Castle
View of the historic castle tower from the Fuschlsee

View of the historic castle tower of Lake Fuschl from

Creation time : Renaissance
Castle type : Uferburg, hunting lodge
Conservation status: Hotel complex in operation
Standing position : Archbishopric ( Archdiocese of Salzburg )
Place: Court near Salzburg
Geographical location 47 ° 48 '31 "  N , 13 ° 15' 19.3"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '31 "  N , 13 ° 15' 19.3"  E
Height: 681  m above sea level A.
Fuschl Castle (State of Salzburg)
Fuschl Castle

Schloss Fuschl is a listed, former hunting lodge from the 15th century in Hof bei Salzburg in the Austrian state of Salzburg and is located on Lake Fuschl in the Salzkammergut . Today it houses a five-star hotel .

location

Fuschl Castle 2008 after the renovation, west facade of the castle tower and side wing

The castle is located in the village of Vorderelsenwang in the municipality of Hof bei Salzburg in the Salzburg area . The historic, four-story castle tower is located at the western end of the Fuschlsee on a peninsula. The tower can be seen in the distance from the village of Fuschl am See opposite . There are forests and an impressive mountain landscape in the surrounding area.

Fuschl hunting lodge

Aerial view of Fuschl Castle

Fuschl Castle was built around 1461 for the Salzburg Prince Archbishop Sigmund Ⅰ. by Gleink-Volkerstorf (1452–1461) and Cardinal Burkhard von Weißpriach (1461–1466) and served as a hunting lodge. The exact construction period is not known, however. The first written mention of a prince-archbishop's hunt dates back to 1545. Under Archbishop Wolf Dietrich , the residence was extensively repaired in 1593 (construction of water pipes, dog stalls for hunting, sheepfold, cleaning). The bailiff of the Altentann office had to bring the bed linen for the announced archbishop. There are records of a great royal hunt under Paris Count von Lodron (1619–1653) from 1624. In 1669 the castle was judged to have been well preserved and preserved ; it was only inhabited by the archbishop and his court. In 1704 the mansion was adapted as an apartment for the hunter who had previously lived in the Herrenkuchl. In 1762 all windows were glazed.

In 1803 the dissolution of the ecclesiastical imperial principality of Salzburg resulted in the end of episcopal rule. After five changes of ownership, Salzburg finally came to the Austrian Empire in 1816 , and with it Fuschl Castle; it is administered by the Salinenamt Hallein. It fell into disrepair because it was used as a residence for foresters and was not maintained. In 1833 the castle was put up for auction, but it did not find a buyer. Therefore it had to be leased until 1851. In 1864 it was bought by the Linz shipmaster Michael Fink, who had already acquired holdings from Rif Castle . He was followed in 1873 by his daughter Amalie and her husband Michael Erl, royal Bavarian chief auditor (military prosecutor). He furnished Fuschl Castle with a number of paintings and furniture, some of which were valuable, but which have not been found since the end of the Second World War . In 1894 the property passed to Colonel Alfred von Erl, who lived here during the summer months. The couple Fritz and Babette Steinbacher from Munich followed in 1910; this was followed by the brothers Eduard and Martin Mayer, post office owners in Hof. They sold the property in 1929 to Gustav Edler von Remiz and his wife Hedwig (a granddaughter of the major German industrialist August Thyssen ).

In 1939 the castle was illegally leased to the Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop via a detour ( Stiftung Haus Fuschl ) . When the rightful owner, Gustav Edler von Remiz, a friend of Ribbentrop's brother-in-law Stefan-Karl Henkell, protested against the expropriation, he was interned in the Dachau concentration camp (also because of his active membership in the " Fatherland Front ") , where he was interned on August 29th Died in 1939.

In 1945, an American soldiers' home was set up here.

The building is now a listed building . In the interior of the castle, little historical substance has been preserved from the time of the archbishop's hunting lodge. The basement still has the vaults from the 16th century. Individual wooden beam ceilings, door frames and stucco mirrors are still reminiscent of the earlier times. The current equipment with art inventory goes back to acquisitions from 1864.

Fuschl Castle as a luxury hotel

Schloss Fuschl Betriebe GmbH
legal form GmbH
Seat Hof near Salzburg , Austria
management Stefan D. Ringgenberg
Branch Hotel industry
Website www.schlossfuschlsalzburg.com

In 1947 the first restitution was made to Ms. Hedwig von Remiz and her co-heirs. At that time, a hotel was started in the castle. Harriet Countess von Walderdorff ran the castle hotel as a tenant from 1954. In 1955, 1956 and 1957 it was a location for the Sissi films with Romy Schneider and Karlheinz Böhm . It was used as a replacement for the Possenhofen Castle on Lake Starnberg .

From 1958 to 1974, the new owner Carl Adolf Vogel and his wife, actress Winnie Markus , turned it into a first-class hotel. Thanks to extensive PR events, the Schlosshotel enjoyed world fame and hosted guests such as Ava Gardner , Audrey Hepburn , Arnold Schwarzenegger , Roger Moore , Marlene Dietrich , Senta Berger , the director James Cameron , Margaret Thatcher , Nehru , Nikita Khrushchev , Anwar as-Sadat , Jiang Zemin , Queen Sirikit of Thailand, the Baron Rothschild , Elenor Roosevelt , the Prince of Monaco, the Begum Aha Khan, Clark Gable , Richard Nixon , Oskar Kokoschka , the Sheikh of Kuwait, as well as the high nobility of Europe.

In 1974 the castle became the property of Max Grundig and the Max Grundig Family Foundation (MGS). The Schörghuber Group has been the owner since 2004 and completely renovated it between January 2005 and June 2006. The construction cost was around 30 million euros.

The five-star hotel initially belonged to The Luxury Collection of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide , then to the Leading Hotels of the World . Since May 2010, the Hotel Schloss Fuschl Resort & Spa has been part of The Luxury Collection by Marriott again .

In addition to the actual castle tower and its annex, the castle hotel complex also includes some historical outbuildings such as the hunter's house , the coach house , the boathouse with a jetty, and an accommodation complex that is largely inconspicuously integrated into the slope to the lake. In addition, modern bungalows ("Seehäusl") in wooden architecture based on the Salzkammergut boathouse style are available for guests.

The castle houses the Schloss Fuschl Collection , a collection of over 150 works by Old Masters from the 17th to the 19th century, and the Bernheimer Galerie Schloss Fuschl , which operated with the Munich gallery Bernheimer Fine Old Masters under the concept of “Visiting Old Masters” becomes.

In 2008, Schloss Fuschl Betriebe GmbH also took over the five-star Hotel Schloss Pichlarn in Irdning in Styria, so that, together with the sister hotel Sheraton Fuschlsee-Salzburg Hotel Jagdhof of the Hotel Schloss Fuschl, three houses are under one management.

gallery

  • View from the fishery, in front the boathouse

  • Driveway, view of the historic castle tower with part of the outbuildings and the Jägerhaus with Ladl Castle.

  • Boathouse at the foot of the Schlossberg

  • View from the castle to Fuschlsee, Fuschl am See and Schafberg

Sources and literature

Web links

Commons : Schloss Fuschl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zaisberger & Schlegel, 1992, pp. 68-71.
  2. ^ Hotel Schloss Fuschl Austria. In: Architects24. ABV Architekten und Bauherren Verlag, accessed on September 9, 2009 (conversion report).
  3. ↑ Hotel Schloß Fuschl - renovation and expansion. (No longer available online.) Architekturbüro Wegmann, Schliersee, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 9, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.architekt-wegmann.de  
  4. ↑ Days in castles and palaces. Salzburg's fabulous castle spirit . In: Industry magazine . No. 2 , 2009, p. 35–37 ( schloss-leopoldskron.com [PDF; accessed on September 9, 2009]).
  5. ↑ Hotel Schloss Fuschl Resort and Spa | Hof bei Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria , fivestaralliance.com
  6. ↑ Schloss Fuschl Collection - Bernheimer Galerie Schloss Fuschl. (No longer available online.) Schloss-fuschl-collection.com, archived from the original on August 5, 2008 ; Retrieved September 9, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schloss-fuschl-collection.com