Glanegg Castle

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Glanegg
Main facade

Main facade

Creation time : before 1350
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: inhabited (priv.)
Standing position : prince archbishop. Nursing dish
Place: Glanegg
Geographical location 47 ° 44 '59 "  N , 13 ° 0' 30"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 44 '59 "  N , 13 ° 0' 30"  E
Height: 482  m above sea level A.
Glanegg Castle (State of Salzburg)
Glanegg Castle

The castle Glanegg is located in the district Fuerstenbrunn the Austrian municipality of Grödig in the province of Salzburg .

Location and building history

The stately castle is visible from afar on a wooded hill on the western edge of the Glanegg district in the middle of a spacious park with garden terraces in the south. The castle has a park and a stately avenue of beech trees as access to the Meierhof .

Originally, the rectangular building with its tower-like central projection had three storeys and a very steep hipped roof , the roof structure of which was expanded and changed in 1920.

To the south of the castle is the equally impressive large Meierhof, the structure of which dates back to the 15th century. The gate tower there was built under Archbishop Leopold Anton von Firmian .

  • The castle in his park

  • Meierhof, inner courtyard

history

Glanegg was mentioned as an archbishop's seat as early as 1350 and was the seat of a nursing court for a very long time . This extended to localities on both sides of the Salzach. Under Archbishop Leonhard von Keutschach , the facility, threatened by decay, was repaired and given the current appearance of an inhabited tower castle . In 1529 the tower roof was renewed. In 1574, Duke Wilhelm V of Cleve stopped here. From 1609 the carer lived in the city of Salzburg, so it was also damaged. The castle was repaired by Archbishop Markus Sittikus . The Keltenallee is a straight line connection to Hellbrunn Palace . Under Paris Lodron it became part of a dam to secure the hinterland of the city of Salzburg . In 1710 a gate was broken out between the hare and pheasant garden. In 1715 a roundabout built over the surrounding wall collapsed , in 1741 the wall was damaged again. In the course of the Austrian War of Succession , the facility was made ready for military use again. In 1762 Archbishop Sigismund von Schrattenbach visited the castle and ordered its renovation. From 1763 to 1787, the cathedral dean and prince-bishop of Chiemsee Ferdinand Christoph von Waldburg-Zeil leased the castle and the associated hunt.

After the secularization , the Salzburg region offered the complex to Elector Ferdinand, Grand Duke of Tuscany , for sale; this came about on May 11, 1804. The doctor Franz de Paula Storch bought it in 1812. He had the chapel built at the foot of the hill; it was consecrated in 1840. His widow Babette, née Riehr, sold the property to Count Aloys von Arco-Stepperg in 1849 . He was also the owner of Anif Castle , but passed the property in Glanegg on to the postmaster's family, Perwein von Hüttau, as early as 1852 . This was followed by: Anton von Lanser (1860), Eduard Geipel (1863), Anton and Theres Berger (1867), Franz and Francisca Knesek von Bartosch (1867), Frederike Krell von Ventschow (1868) and Karl and Henriette Klusemann (1872) , whereby the property was leased to Baron Adolf von Berlichingen .

It has been owned by the Mayr-Melnhof family from Salzburg since 1896 . It cannot be visited.

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