Müllegg Castle
The Müllegg Castle , after the builders Grimming also Grimming Schloss called, was one since the early 14th century to the late 17th century existing castle on the site of today's regional hospital in the Austrian city of Salzburg in the district Mülln . All that remains of the building is a gate and a well house that is not open to the public. An early Grimmingtor is mentioned as early as 1380.
Müllegg Castle
Müllegg Castle was always owned by the Grimming family. As can be seen on an etching by Johann Christian Wirsing , the palace was still designed in the Gothic style in the 17th century and had one high and six smaller, pointed towers. It has been handed down from the widely ramified Grimming family that members of the same family brought the miraculous image of Maria Plain to Salzburg and kept it in the castle, thus contributing to the development of the Maria Plain pilgrimage site .
When Archbishop Johann Ernst Graf Thun had today's St. Johanns Hospital built according to plans by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach in 1692 , the old Müllegg Castle was demolished. Only the gate in the middle of the hospital remains of the castle.
Mülleggertor
The Mülleggertor (Grimmingtor) was mentioned as early as 1380, it was the outermost city gate of the suburb of Mülln on the road from Salzburg to Maxglan and on to Reichenhall . A wall led from him to the now defunct Wartelstein gate in Augustinergasse, which was another of the Salzburg city gates until the beginning of the 19th century. Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau added this area to the city and had the Müllegger or Grimming gate rebuilt close to the castle in 1607. The coat of arms of this archbishop can still be seen on the magnificently designed renaissance gate. The two small towers at the gate date from the time it was built. At that time there were two storeys above the archway that served as grain boxes. On the sides of the gate there was an apartment for the gatekeeper.
Fountain system
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Entrance to the well house
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Stairs in the well house
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Around 1800 an elaborately designed underground well house was discovered due to an accident when a team of horses owned by the Walcher miller from Maxglan broke into the clinic's premises. Its low-lying basin collects water from the area of the Mönchsberg , which flows through as groundwater under the site; the bottom of the system is 4.5 m below street level. According to archaeological investigations, this system must have been built around 1600 and served to supply Müllegg Castle with water. It was surely overbuilt with a well house, from which the water could presumably be removed both with a rope - using a pulling device - and by hand with buckets by going down the spiral staircase to the pool. The complex is reminiscent of the St. Patrick's Fountain in Orvieto.
The fountain is not open to the public.
Web links
- Müllegg Castle on Salzburgwiki
- City walls of Salzburg
literature
- Herbert Dorn: Searching for traces in Salzburg. Disappeared buildings and forgotten art treasures from eight centuries. Museum Carolino Augusteum, Salzburg 1996, ISBN 3-901014-49-7 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '23.7 " N , 13 ° 1' 49.1" E