Emslieb Castle

Emslieb Castle

Emslieb Castle

Emslieb Castle is located on Hellbrunner Allee No. 65 in Salzburg .

history

The castle is also called Villa Strongfort and was built “in Italian style” in 1618 by Jakob Hannibal von Hohenems , the nephew of the archbishop and high princely high court marshal as a reduced form of the Palazzo Gallio in Gravedona . The crown grotto of the Hellbrunn water features is a greatly reduced image of Emslieb Castle. The Hohenems coat of arms stone is located above the entrance, and Archbishop Markus Sittikus' coat of arms stone above the central balcony .

After his patron and uncle Markus Sittikus died in 1619, the nephew Jakob Hannibal, who was not very popular in Salzburg because of his excessiveness, had to leave the province of Salzburg. In 1620, Prince Archbishop Paris von Lodron took over the castle and gave it to the archbishop's councilor Thomas Perger, who from then on was allowed to call himself Perger von Emslieb. The Perger families owned the castle until 1710, then the Barons von Grimming owned it from 1713–1778, then the Bishop of Chiemsee and 1797–1811 Ernestine Princess Esterházy . After 1811 several changes of ownership followed, mostly quickly. It is currently owned by the gallery owner Thaddaeus Ropac .

Through various major renovations, the castle has lost its original character with the rectangular central building with its hipped roof and the slightly protruding dominant towers with their pyramid roofs.

Castle garden

The garden of the old castle was originally divided into ornamental beds and crossed by a canal in which - similar to Hellbrunn - rare water birds were kept. The central oval stone-clad ornamental pond of the castle (once occupied with whitefish and char , today important as an amphibian habitat) was part of the old garden from the start. A castle axis runs parallel to the Fürstenweg in the direction of the Salzachauwald. The castle axis, which characterizes the landscape, is visible today through an avenue of fruit trees that has become gaps.

Meierhof

The building has been a separate building since 1930, used independently of Emslieb Castle. The idiosyncratic but generous shape of the building in the immediate vicinity of Hellbrunn Palace was created in its current shape in 1874 and at that time belonged to the Freiherr von Imhof family. Between 1960 and 1980 it was used as a riding stable.

literature

• Emslieb. In: Kunsthistorisches Institut der k. k. Central Commission for Monument Preservation (Ed.), Max Dvořák (Red.): Austrian Art Topography. Volume 11: Paul Buberl, Franz Martin (archival part): The monuments of the political district of Salzburg. III. Part: Salzburg judicial district. (The monuments of the judicial district of Salzburg). Schroll, Vienna 1916, pp. 410-412 (PDF) .
• Bernd Euler, Ronald Gobiet, Horst Huber: Dehio Salzburg - City and Country. Anton Schroll, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7031-0599-2 .
• 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.

Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ 56 ″  N , 13 ° 3 ′ 55 ″  E