Emsburg Castle

Emsburg

The Emsburg , also known as Kreuzhof , Ritterhof , Lambergschloss or Kloster Emsburg , is located on Hellbrunner Allee No. 52 in Salzburg . The property ( entire complex including horticultural monuments) is a listed building.

history

The palace was built almost at the same time as Hellbrunn Palace in 1619 and 1620 with significant support from the Archbishop of Salzburg by Johann Sigmund von Mabon, Markus Sittikus' bodyguard captain, including the associated mill and the ornate palace garden with its eight bridges over the Hellbrunnerbach (Mühlbach). The castle was not completed at the time of Prince Archbishop Markus Sittikus' death, but his successor Paris Lodron confirmed the promised further support for Johann Siegfried von Mabon. Soon after the marriage of Ursula Maria von Mabon, the Emsburg estate passed to the Barons of Rehlingen.

Archbishop Johann Ernst von Thun bought it in 1701 to donate it to the Order of St. Rupert . At that time, all doors and shutters were painted with the order cross, from which the names Kreuz- or Ritterhof come. The Rupertiorden was dissolved in 1811, the St. Peter monastery inherited the land and sold the property to the Salzburg governor Hugo Graf Lamberg in 1868 , in 1873 it went to Sigmund Graf Thun Hohenstein and in 1880 to Kunibert Graf Lamberg. Thun Hohenstein commissioned the architect Josef Wessicken with historicizing conversions of the building. National Socialists moved in here in 1938 and in 1941 the Emsburg was sold to the German Reich Forestry Office.

Emsburg Castle

Shape and use today

From 1948 on, the castle served as the motherhouse of the Hallein school sisters . At that time, the outbuildings directly on Hellbrunner Alle were raised by one floor and, contrary to the original design concept, significantly changed.

The castle stands (after the castle was located in the former flood plain of the Salzach) elevated on a high base with terraces all around. The magnificent double-armed outside staircase in the east of the castle with its conglomerate balustrades leads up to the castle entrance, which was built over with columns in the 19th century. There are four slender obelisks on the corners of the palace with its high hipped roof. The stair tower is attached to the west facade.

Many preserved pictures in the interior of the castle are reminiscent of the former commander of the knightly order.

The parent company of the Hallein sisters relocated to Schloss Kahlsperg in Oberalm in 2012/13 . Emsburg Palace is now privately owned by Haythem al Wazzan from Salzburg.

Meierhof and mill

The former mill in the north of the castle garden is kept in a rural style. It was created under Siegfried von Mabon.

Today's Kreuzhof (Hellbrunner Allee 63), once the Meierhof of the castle, is located opposite the castle on the east side of the avenue. The former stately dairy of the castle, which with its conglomerate-framed windows on all sides and the high crested roof itself has castle-like features, was once also called Thunsfelden dairy. The building, which was built at the same time as the castle itself, was already part of the donation to the St. Ruperti Order. It was rebuilt in 1961, at that time the stable part was removed and the rest was converted for residential use.

The Kreuzhofweg is the remainder of an old landscape-defining avenue that led into the former alluvial forest.

literature

• Central Commission for Monument Preservation in Vienna, Institute for Austrian Art Research: Austrian Art Topography. Volume 11, Anton Schroll, Vienna 1916, pp. 404-410 (PDF) .
• Bernd Euler, Ronald Gobiet, Horst Huber: Dehio Salzburg - City and Country. Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7031-0599-2 , p. OA
• Peter Husty: Hellbrunner Allee: A piece of Salzburg's cultural heritage. Bastei - Magazin des Salzburger Stadtverein , 2018, 67th year, pp. 11–23.
• Reinhard Medicus: Hellbrunner Allee and its surroundings. On the history of the avenue and its meaning . In: Communications from the Society for Regional Studies in Salzburg . Volume 146, Salzburg 2006, p. 405.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Emsburg, Salzburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry via Schloss Emsburg to Burgen-Austria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sisters have a new roof over their heads , Theresa Kaserer, mein district.at → Puch bei Hallein → Chronik
2. ↑ Sisters move out of Emsburg , salzburg.orf.at, published on June 8, 2012

Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′ 19 ″  N , 13 ° 3 ′ 43 ″  E