Haunsperg Castle

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Haunsperg
Oberalm Haunsperg Castle 8080.jpg
Creation time : before 1365, appearance of a baroque pleasure palace (around 1600)
Conservation status: in operation (hotel)
Place: Oberalm
Geographical location 47 ° 41 '42.7 "  N , 13 ° 6' 16.1"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 41 '42.7 "  N , 13 ° 6' 16.1"  E
Haunsperg Castle (State of Salzburg)
Haunsperg Castle

Haunsperg Castle is a former aristocratic seat in the municipality of Oberalm in the Austrian state of Salzburg (Hammerstrasse 51).

history

The castle was first mentioned in a document around 1365, when it was owned by Ekhart Prennär von Haus. The property was sold that same year. In 1388 Michael von Haunsperg bought the property. The Lords of Haunsperg still owned several estates in the Salzburg and Bavarian regions (e.g. Goldenstein Castle , Ansitz in Prenzingerau , Vachenlueg ). When the estate was divided up in 1418, the ownership in Oberalm fell to Hartwig von Haunsperg. The family was raised to the rank of count in 1670, but died out in the male line in 1691 and in the female line in 1724.

The residence was brought into her first marriage to Georg Trauner von Adelstetten in 1596 by Juliana von Haunsperg. In 1638 she handed it over to her daughter Maria Katharina, married Pranckh . Franz Adam Gottlieb von Pranckh followed in 1691, followed by his five sons and three daughters in 1704. 1710 his widow Anna Felicitas Hegi of origin , the Administration of the Patrimony. In 1728 her son Franz Wilhelm Gottlieb von Pranckh sold his property to Georg von Lohr on Haunsperg. He was followed in 1731 by Johann Adam Gerstner von Gerstorff, personal physician to Archbishop Leopold Anton von Firmian . From him in 1746 Josef Rupert von Pfeiffersberg acquired the Upper Alps Castle with a chapel . His family owned Haunsperg until 1815, when the castle was auctioned. Peter Paul von Maffei, owner of Kahlsperg , acquired the residence from the bankruptcy estate. In 1856 his son of the same name inherited the property, followed by his widow Johanna in 1881. However, when were Einantwortung 1894 eight heirs entered in the Land Register, 1897 were three more added.

So it is not surprising that in 1899 the entire property was bought by Adolf Mautner Ritter von Markhof and his sister Marie, married since 1911 to Rudolf von Thun and Hohenstein , district captain of the Hallein administrative authority from 1896 to 1900. In 1938 Haunsperg became the property of the Countess' nephew, Emmerich Gernerth-Mautner Markhof.

Georg Gernerth Mautner Markhof and his wife Erika-Therese ran the property as a castle hotel.

Construction

Today's castle emerged from a medieval residential tower, which was converted into the current form of a residence in 1600. A four-storey building rises on a rectangular floor plan, in the east and west surmounted by a turret with a baroque curved tent roof . On the east facade there is an arcade front, on the ground floor these are placed on marble columns. The main entrance to the castle is through the eastern tower. In the gable frieze above, the coat of arms of the von Gerstorff family is attached using a fresco technique.

To the east of the castle stands the castle chapel dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua . The chapel dates from 1675. The chapel building has an open vestibule based on three columns in the north, and a sacristy extension to the south, which is surmounted by a baroque turret with an octagonal tower and a pyramid roof. The bell has an inscription with the year 1570 and the coat of arms of the Kuen-Belasi and Thannhausen families . The current equipment dates from the early 18th century. In the chapel is the oldest mechanical tower in Oberalm, which is said to resemble the tower clock in Salisbury from 1386. The movement is believed to date from around 1580 and is driven by two stone weights. The inclined corner pillars with a simple knob are typical of the time. In the center of the chapel there are three dials, each with only one hour indicator.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfhart Fally: Public time displays in Salzburg. In Bastei - The magazine of the Salzburg City Association , 68th year, 2019, pp. 4–10.