Lürzerhof

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Lürzerhof

The Lürzerhof is a 17th century mansion in the Austrian city of Salzburg in the Lehen district . Today the building houses the State Institute for the Hearing Impaired and the Josef Rehrl School, a school for hearing impaired children, is housed in a younger extension.

Naming

The building complex was known under various names throughout its history. The location and owner gave it its name. Originally it was called Egglgut or Egglgut am Gailenbach (precisely: Gailinpach ). Today the property has the address Gailenbachweg 1–3. In the 18th century the building was named after the buyer Kaufmann-Luerzerischer Hof , which is still known as the Lürzerhof today. After a renovation in 1860, the names O'Donell'sches Schloss or O'Donellhof after the new owner were common. The name Schloss Lehen also existed as an alternative name .

history

Mansion

Originally there was a farm at this point, which was mentioned in a document as early as 1566. At the beginning of the 17th century a stately mansion was built on this site by master builder Andreas Pernegger . As a result, it had changing owners:

  • from 1670: Johann von Fletting, colonel and castle captain of the Hohensalzburg fortress. He had the Madaillons painted on the first floor with the portraits of the Habsburg rulers Matthias, Rudolf II, Ferdinand II, and Ferdinand III.
  • from 1675: Georg Ehrenreich Stockhamer, owner a. a. of the Sternbräus and the Goldener Hirsch inn . He added those of Archbishop Max Gandolph von Kuenburg and Emperor Leopold I to the existing portraits.
  • from 1725: Christian Kajetan Geschwendtner, iron merchant.
  • from 1764: Matthias Lürzer, civil trader.
  • from 1807: During the Napoleonic wars , the building served as an inn and beer bar with changing owners.
  • In 1860 Moritz O'Donnell Graf von Tyrconnel (brother of Maximilian O'Donnell , who saved the life of Emperor Franz-Joseph in the assassination attempt on February 18, 1853 ) acquired the castle for his wife Clotilde Countess Hardegg , who used it as a summer residence . Countess Hardegg sold the property to the hospital fund in 1886.
  • The hospital fund planned various uses. The plans for the establishment of an asylum failed in 1889. Finally the castle was converted into an epidemic hospital. Violent protests by the surrounding communities of Maxglan, Liefering and Siezenheim resulted in a transfer to the St. Johanns Hospital .
Lürzerhof (front view)

State deaf-mute institution Salzburg

  • On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Josef, the Salzburg state parliament passed the resolution on January 15, 1895 to "establish a state educational institution for blind and deaf and dumb children to celebrate the glorious government of Emperor Franz Josef I."
  • The O`Donell`sche Schloss in Lehen, which belongs to the hospital fund, with its enclosed park was purchased by the State of Salzburg for 30,000 guilders in February 1897 and adapted with a further 11,000 guilders.
  • On September 16, 1898, the ceremonial inauguration of the Salzburg State Deaf-Mute Asylum took place in the palace. On September 19, 1898, director Ludwig Angelberger began teaching 12 children in the first grade.
  • In 1908/09 the school and boarding school were expanded.

During the Second World War, the building was used for the Hitler Youth and after the war was taken over by the US occupation forces.

State Institute for the Hearing Impaired and Josef Rehrl School

The state of Salzburg has owned the palace since 1949. Today it houses the State Institute for the Hearing Impaired and the Josef Rehrl School, a primary and secondary school for deaf and hard of hearing children. 1979–1983 an immediate renovation took place, during which the castle was largely restored in its character of a summer country seat.

Art history

Lorenz Hübner describes the manor in 1792 as follows: “The merchant = Luerzerische Hof, a little further away from the city and street, on the left on a hill, a very spacious and long building with arbors and turrets, with a large and wide garden with several summer houses which is surrounded by a wall. "

The Lürzerhof is a three-storey cubic building, the core of which dates from the 17th century. The east facade has a slim tower crowned with a hood and lantern with a loggia on the third floor including a wrought iron railing from the 17th century. On the first floor there are two corridor-like rooms with tiled stucco ceilings from the first half of the 17th century. On the second floor there are rooms with painted round medallions framed by stucco, among the portraits of the gentlemen it also shows Prince Archbishop Johann Ernst von Thun and Hohenstein .

In the chapel there is a baroque altar, on the altar sheet of which our Lady of Sorrows is depicted from the middle of the 18th century. The paintings date from the 20th century.

literature

  • Dehio Salzburg , Salzburg: Residenz-Verlag, 1986, p. 662.
  • Lieselotte Eltz-Hoffmann: The O'Donnell Castle . In: Bastei. Journal of the Salzburg City Association for the preservation and care of buildings, culture and society, 57 (March 2008), 1st episode, pp. 22-25.
  • Lorenz Hübner: Description of the Prince-Archbishop's capital and residence city of Salzburg and its areas combined with its oldest history , 2 vols., Salzburg 1792–93.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hübner 1792, Volume 1, p. 488

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 34.4 "  N , 13 ° 1 ′ 25.7"  E