Mönchstein Castle
The monk stone castle is located in a prominent location on the northern edge of the monk mountain plateaus in the city of Salzburg . The historicizing building is now a five-star hotel .
History of the surroundings of the hotel building
Tetelheim Tower and Mönchstein Residence
A building was first mentioned in documents in the wider area of today's Mönchstein Castle in 1350 as the Tetelheimer Turm , named after the Tetelheimers who lived here and who held the court of Waging am See in the middle of the 13th century . This tower was probably located on the hill southwest of the Monikapforte. The name Mönchstein Tower was later used for the small defense tower . From 1419 to 1565 the building was owned by the Fröschlmoser family. A chapel had existed as early as 1543 (probably east of the tower), which was consecrated on August 3, 1661 in honor of Saint Mary , Saint Anne and all holy monks. In 1531 Virgil Fröschlmoser built a Meyerhaus, stables and a barn in this room and also built a cistern. In 1565 the impoverished widow of Christoph Fröschlmoser had to sell the entire property “including the Munichstein called Thurn, together with the Fröschlmoos house and Lustgarten, the garden in front of the Klausenthor at the Siechgarten and at the Mönchsbergtor” to the Salzburg citizen Wolf Windisch. In 1622 the property was sold to the Mülln monastery .
The Professorenschlössl and the Collegischlössl
After further changes of ownership, the Salzburg Benedictine University acquired the property in 1654 . In the area of today's Mönchstein Castle, that is, to the south-east of the Monikapforte, a simple little castle was built to give the professors fresh air and "recovery from the heavy mental work". It was soon called the “Professor's Castle” . A second building was made available to the students as the Collegischlössl . A tower to the south of it was called the mathematical tower and was used for astronomical observations. This was torn down around 1780. The journalist and topographer Lorenz Hübner lived in the Professorenschlössl for some time before 1800.
Residence and villa
After the abolition of the Benedictine University by the Bavarians in 1810, the complex was auctioned and acquired in 1813 by the state official Josef Felner (royal Bavarian councilor at the Supreme Court). He had the neglected property renewed and entrusted the Salzburg merchant Leopold Hagenauer with the administration. After the fire of 1818, he acquired statues for the garden of the palace from Mirabell Palace , which he described with idiosyncratic texts (for example in the case of a statue whose arm had broken off: "Heavens, who would have believed that! What war and storms couldn't , this was reserved for peace, tearing off my left hand. "). Hagenauer's son Josef, owner of the largest Salzburg brewery (Steinbräu), finally acquired the property in 1834. In the 20th century Anton Faistauer also lived in the villa.
In 1887 Hagenauer's heirs sold the property to the Mattighofen banker Karl Leitner (1855–1911); The property (then called Leitner Villa ) remained in the Leitner family's property until 1917. In 1886 he founded the Elektrizitätswerke Salzburg and in 1890 had the electric elevator built to the Mönchsberg and the road from Mülln to the Mönchsberg, opened up the Klaus terrace and a path build to the Mönchsberg lift. His wife Kreszentia Leitner commissioned Jakob Ceconi with the first extension work.
After Leitner's death in 1917, the widow sold the property to Councilor Bela Veith, the financial advisor to the Romanian royal family, who greatly expanded the castle in 1919. Since then - in memory of a building that once existed in this landscape area - the name Schloss Mönchstein has been common. The Queen Mother Marie of Romania visited the castle several times during the festival. After Bela Veith's death, his sons Guido and Ferdinand took over the property.
Hotel Schloss Mönchstein
Ferdinand Veith founded the Hotel Betriebs KG in 1948 . F. Veith in Salzburg , but soon had to take Adolf Brühl with his wife Lucia into the company due to high debts. In 1948, Adolf Brühl redesigned the building into a luxury hotel with the help of the architects Hugo Huebner and Walter Baumgartner. Opera singers ( Hilde Gülden , Kirsten Flakstad ), members of the Ford family and film divas soon stayed here . In 1952 the Brühls emigrated to Brazil. In 1956 the Mierka family joined the operating company. In 2000 the castle became the property of a Tyrolean hotelier family; the sole owner Anna Gabrielli-Schwarz slipped into bankruptcy with the hotel in 2003. In 2005 the property was taken over by the German billionaire and " Capri-Sun- inventor" Hans-Peter Wild . He had the hotel renovated and expanded it to a total of 24 rooms and suites and a 300 m 2 spa and wellness area with an outdoor infinity pool. The castle is now under the direction of director Samantha Teufel.
Awards
As Salzburg's first five-star superior hotel, the Mönchstein has received numerous awards. In 1993 and 2009, the Paris Lodron castle restaurant was awarded two toques by Gault Millau . Well-known guests were Jopi Heesters in 2008 or Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz with their entire entourage in 2009 while shooting the film Knight and Day . In 2019, Gault Millau awarded the newly created restaurant The Glass Garden by chef Markus Mayr with four toques and 17 points. In 2020 the restaurant was awarded a Michelin star .
Reconstruction and modernization
In 2017 the hotel was extensively rebuilt and modernized. The expansion work was completed in 2018, the newly created The Glass Garden Restaurant and the Apollo Bar have since been housed in an innovative glass-steel construction by the Salzburg architect Volkmar Burgstaller.
literature
- Hedwig Weiss: The dining room in Mönchstein Castle . In: Salzburg Archive Volume 20. Series of publications by the Friends of Salzburg History Association, Salzburg, 1995, pp. 269–302.
- Adolf Frank: The Mönchsberg and its buildings . In: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde, 70, 1930, pp. 1-44
Web links
- Website of the Hotel Schloss Mönchstein
- Entry via Mönchstein Castle to Burgen-Austria
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- ↑ Leitner was also important for the history of Salzburg in other ways. In 1886 he acquired the building at Makartplatz 3 and had a new steam power plant built in its courtyard to generate electricity. Although only business people and hoteliers could afford electricity instead of the usual gas lighting, this was the first private utility company in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. After expansion, the company built the Electricity Hotel , today Hotel Bristol , in 1894 with the first neon sign.
- ↑ The special features of the commissioned interior in the neo-Gothic style and other purchased furnishings are described in detail in Lit. Hedwig Weiss, 1995, p. 277 f.
- ↑ Mönchstein Castle sold. In: Salzburger Nachrichten. May 25, 2005. Retrieved February 25, 2012 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '14.9 " N , 13 ° 2' 8.9" E