Kupelwieser-Schlössl
The Kupelwieser-Schlössl , also called the Falkenturm, Konstantinturm or Marienschlösschen , is a neo-Gothic building on the Mönchsberg in Salzburg in the Richterhöhe area. The building has been listed as a historical monument since 1995 .
history
The building was first mentioned in a document on April 23, 1364, when the carpenter Wolfhart, together with his wife Elsbeth and their daughter of the same name, received the "Peunt" (which is a fenced-in meadow) as a treasure for the infirmary in Mülln . The tower apparently served to keep the falcons for the archbishop's hunt. As a result, the tower becomes the property of the cathedral chapter or the cathedral provost , hence the name of the tower in 1389 Tumherrenturm and 1417 Tumprobsteiturm . The cathedral chapter subsequently leased the tower, just in 1612 to Count Constantine Liechtenstein, to whom the name Konstantin Tower goes back. On December 10, 1642, the building and the surrounding properties in the “Hohe Salzburger Landschaft” were sold for fortification purposes.
On August 29, 1674, in exchange for the Riedenburger Berg, the St. Peter monastery received ownership of the tower and the associated Stöckl , without the tower itself, and turned it into the Constantine dairy . This consisted of a two-story high brick house leaning against the tower, a separate oven and other agricultural buildings (leaf and wooden hut, barn with threshing barn, cellar and wagon shed) and about 7000 m² of land. In 1822 this dairy was also auctioned off by St. Peter's Monastery because the income was too low. The tower, which had been in danger of collapsing for many years, collapsed in 1831. Vogl, the owner of the dairy at the time, bought the land on which the collapsed tower stood (approx. 77 m²) from the Fortification Directorate. In the following years a number of owners alternated, all of whom came to property through purchase.
In 1863 Josef and Anna Achleitner bought the dairy. Josef Achleitner was a well-known zither player and at the same time a royal Bavarian chamber virtuoso and chamber musician of King Otto of Greece . He had the previous buildings demolished and built a new tower with an observation tower and a neo-Gothic and historicizing interior that was in keeping with the taste of the time ; some of the wood paneling and slug panes are still preserved today. It is said that he received visitors with the flugelhorn and then led them to the Söller. After the builder's death on March 5, 1891, the property first passed to the widow and then (1892) to the son, who sold it to Marie Geisberg. The inventory was auctioned and the house became a guesthouse under the name "Marienschlösschen". Marie Fischer bought the building in 1902.
The next buyer with a purchase contract dated December 2, 1912 was the industrialist Franz Kupelwieser, who made various additions and renovations and called the property “Stauffenegg”. But this designation did not last. Franz Kupelwieser also had the gatehouse and a small wall with a fountain built in front of the gatehouse. His son Ernst Kupelwieser, an eminent physiologist and developer of a process for debittering soybeans, took over the property after his father's death in 1930. After his death in 1964, the castle passed to his daughter Gerheid Widrich , who lived here with Hans Widrich from 1965, via a stopover (at first part of the property went to the two daughters from his first marriage who had emigrated to Canada) .
The Kupelwieserschlössl today
Gottfried von Eine was a guest here when he was on the board of directors of the Salzburg Festival. Bertolt Brecht lived here for a short time in 1948 and worked on the piece “Salzburg Dance of Death”. The planned participation of Brecht in the festival was mainly commented on hatefully by the Salzburger Nachrichten . The Kupelwieserschlössl is also known because Peter Handke lived here between 1979 and 1988 . He described his walks on the Mönchsberg in "A Writer's Afternoon". Handke also wrote part of his early work (“The Repetition”, “The Absence”, “About the Villages”) and numerous translations (William Adonis, Aeschylus, Jean Genet, Shakespeare and Sophocles) here. Works such as “The Teaching of Sainte Victoire” (1980), “Children's History” (1981), “The Chinese of Pain” (1983), “A Writer's Afternoon” (1987), “The Repetition” (1986) and "The Absence" (1987). In the volume “Am Felsfenster morgens” (1998) he also processed memories of Salzburg. His host, childhood friend and compatriot Widrich built up an extensive Handke collection, which he left on permanent loan to the Austrian National Library . Further handwritten manuscripts of some Handke texts can be found in the Salzburg literature archive .
The ceramic workshop attached to the wall at Richterhöhe was sold to the architect Koloman Lenk, who set up a studio apartment here.
literature
- Adolf Frank (1930): The Mönchsberg and its buildings. Announcements of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies, 70, pp. 1–44.
- Magda Krön (2016): The Kupelwieser Schlössl on the Mönchsberg. Bastei - Magazine of the Salzburg City Association, 65th year, pp. 26–27.
- Christian F. Uhlir (2011). (Ed.): Salzburg City Mountains. Mönchsberg - Kapuzinerberg - Festungsberg - Nonnberg - Rainberg. Salzburg: edition Winterwork, ISBN 978-3-86468-033-5 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 47 '40 " N , 13 ° 2' 23.6" E