Blühnbach Castle

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Blühnbach Castle

The Blühnbach Castle is located in Blühnbachtal at throwing in the province of Salzburg . The lock is privately owned and "hermetically sealed".

history

In 1431 Archbishop Johann II issued a letter of fief to Pliembach , which contained this name for the first time. This was associated with the following legend : When Archbishop Hartwig consecrated a church in this valley, a dry branch is said to have sprouted flowers in his hand (hence Pluebach ).

Originally the castle was a wooden hunting lodge, which was first mentioned in a document in 1431. Prince Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau (1559–1617) had the previously wooden hunting lodge expanded from 1603 to 1607 into a masonry hunting lodge. The builders of the lordly Gepey in Pliempach were Ruep Eder, Andrä Maurer and Gabriel Prändtl. However, due to the construction of the Weitwörth hunting lodge in Flachgau , Blühnbach lost its importance. Since the 18th century it was only used as a stud farm . Archbishop Hieronymus Colloredo had a second floor added in the second half of the 18th century and the castle made habitable again. In 1816, after the final annexation of Salzburg to Austria, ownership passed to the state owner .

The now Aryan castle was leased in 1842 to the aristocratic hunting society , whose members hunted here until 1910. When Hermann von Barth came down there in 1873, it had been "for many years in the lease of a large hunting party, mostly Austrian princes and cavaliers" who employed numerous hunters to oversee their game-rich hunting grounds. "Directed by the chief hunter's wife, who runs an excellent farm here, I inspected the various cabinets of the hunting masters, and finally the splendidly furnished dining room in the north-western corner of the castle, everything in the purest hunter's style and yet luxurious and comfortable at the same time. The tourist always finds a hospitable reception and excellent accommodation in the Blühnbachschloss ”.

In 1908 the Habsburgs acquired the property. Heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand (1863–1914) had the hunting lodge rebuilt or rebuilt and refurbished in 1910 by master builder Ludwig Simon, who also commissioned the Hallein " Workshops for Christian Art and Applied Arts ". He also had 14,000 hectares of forest converted into a ruling domain that was hermetically sealed from the outside world and only used for hunting; this led to massive disputes with the population and the Alpine Association . After his murder in 1914, the castle was sold to the Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach family in 1916 . The "last Krupp", Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach , was buried in 1986 in the crypt of the castle chapel of Blühnbach Castle. In 1973 he had already sold the hunting area in the Hagen Mountains to the Austrian Federal Forests . After his death, the American industrialist Frederick R. Koch ( Koch Industries ) bought the castle in 1988/89 and used it as a summer residence until his death in February 2020. In 2009, Blühnbach Castle was featured in a documentary about the Krupp family a. a. to be seen on ZDF .

Construction

The south-east facing central front of the castle consists of several parts. A round arched portal with castellated stones and wedge stones from the beginning of the 17th century is surmounted by a profiled flat gable. Above it is a new statue of the Virgin Mary. The adjoining parts are only three-story, the outer parts protrude again over the middle part. Accordingly, the roof is also divided into five. The narrow side in the southwest is four-storey and has a Gothic portal, a terrace resting on columns and a romantic balustrade. The storeys are divided up by double flaps and coupled windows. This is typical of buildings from the time of Archbishop Wolf Dietrich. A hall with barrel vaults extends through the lower floor. A kitchen was installed in the former stables. A flight of stairs leads to a large hall on the second floor, which is followed by wide hall-like corridors.

In the northeast is the so-called hunter's house of the castle from 1780. Two floors are bricked, a third is made of wood. Archbishop Colloredo's coat of arms is attached to the house.

The castle chapel has been mentioned since 1582. The chapel was rebuilt in a neo-Gothic style and converted into a side chapel. The institution for this was put together by Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Surroundings

The locking of the castle hinders mountain hikers who want to climb from the Blühnbach valley into the Tiefenbach valley; “To reach the path, you have to go above [the castle] along the boundary fence”.

literature

Web links

Commons : Jagdschloss Blühnbach  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bernhard Kühnhauser: AV Guide Berchtesgaden Alps , margin no . 3094. Rother, Munich 2009.
  2. ↑ Schloss Blühnbach / Tenneck ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted 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.salzburg.gv.at
  3. ↑ Hermann von Barth : From the Northern Limestone Alps , Munich 1874, Facsimile Saarbrücken: Finis Mundi 2008, p. 109.
  4. ^ Moosleitner, Fritz: Hallein. Portrait of a small town. Hallein 1989. p. 161 f
  5. ↑ AP: Frederick Koch, arts benefactor and low-profile Koch brother, dies aged 86 . In: The Guardian . February 14, 2020, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed February 14, 2020]).
  6. ↑ TV film "Die Krupps" realized with Salzburg support. In: salzburg24.at. March 19, 2009, accessed April 28, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Krupp film is intended to attract companies to the Salzach. In : wirtschaftsblatt.at. March 23, 2009, archived from the original on March 15, 2016 ; Retrieved April 28, 2015 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 28 ′ 49 ″  N , 13 ° 6 ′ 18.1 ″  E