Mozarthaus St. Gilgen
The Mozarthaus St. Gilgen is dedicated to the memory of the mother ( Anna Maria Walburga Mozart, née Pertl ) and the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( Maria Anna Ignatia, called Nannerl ).
The current memorial is located in the former nursing court of St. Gilgen . The building was mentioned in a document as early as 1569, and in 1691 the nursing court moved in here. Mozart's maternal grandfather, Wolfgang Niklas Pertl , had the building rebuilt between 1718 and 1720 as the “Salzburg care commissioner”. The current building was carried out by Sebastian Stumpfegger , the coat of arms above the entrance portal was created by Wolf Weissenkhürchner and contains a chronogram for the year 1720. The inscription reads:
“ AeDes Istas antehaC rVInosas fVnDItVs reaeDIflCat FRANC. Ant. A (rchiepiscopus) P (rinceps) S (alisburgensis) S (abctae) S (edis) A (postolicae) L (egatus) S (acri) R (omani) I (mperii) P (rinceps) from Harrach '"
Mozart's mother was born in this house on December 25, 1720. After the death of her father, Anna Maria Pertl moved to Salzburg in 1724. Here she married the future father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Leopold in 1747 . Since Mozart's sister, Anna Maria, called "Nannerl", had married her grandfather's successor in office, the widower Johann Baptist von Berchtold zu Sonnenburg, in 1784, she returned in 1784 to the nursing court of St. Gilgen. She lived here until her husband's death on February 26, 1801 and then left St. Gilgen to move to Salzburg. Wolfgang Amadeus, on the other hand, never visited his mother's birthplace or his sister's house.
The points of contact between St. Gilgen and the Mozart family had been forgotten in the 19th century. In 1905 the judge Anton Matzig found old files in the attic of the district court and reconstructed the relationships between the house and the famous family of musicians. Matzig also arranged for the Viennese sculptor Jakob Gruber to create a relief plaque with the heads of Nannerl and her mother, which was inaugurated on August 16, 1906 and is still attached to the house today.
The house has been owned by the Mozartdorf St. Gilgen Cultural Association since 2005 , it was listed as a historical monument in 2007 and the permanent exhibition "Anna Maria Mozart, known as Nannerl, an artist on Lake Wolfgang" has been housed here since 2008. The house is one of the first mansard buildings in the Salzburger Land; the extension in the west dates from 1759. In 1991 Toni Schneider-Manzell built a marble fountain next to the house , the bronze figure of which depicts a child and a frost spouting with water, which is supposed to remind of Mozart's mother as a child.
In addition to being used as a museum, the building is also home to the MA Mozart St. Gilgen Chamber Orchestra . Concerts take place in the so-called Falkenstein Hall; The house can also be rented for seminars, weddings, birthday or anniversary celebrations.
literature
- Friederike Zaisberger & Walter Schlegel : Castles and palaces in Salzburg. Flachgau and Tennengau . Birch series, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-85326-957-5 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 45 '59.9 " N , 13 ° 22' 4.6" E