Marzoll Castle

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Marzoll Castle

The Marzoll Castle in Marzoll in Bad Reichenhall originally probably only zweigeschoßig and was rebuilt from 1527 to 1536 by the Reichenhaller patrician family Fröschl and increased and turned into a Renaissance palace. The Fröschl had gained their enormous fortune by owning salt boilers in Reichenhall. The family seat was executed in the then new Renaissance style from Italy . The facility in the form of a cubic structure with four round corner towers was the first of its kind in Bavaria. In the course of the 16th century the gate and the curtain wall were added. Under the lords of the palace from 1605–1798, the Barons Lasser von Lasseregg from Salzburg, additional outbuildings were built in 1708 and around 1750 the rooms on the second floor were decorated with stucco. The stucco work comes from Benedikt Zöpf, who also decorated the church of St. Valentine next to the castle in rococo style at this time. (Zöpf stuccoed several sacred interiors in Salzburg, including the collegiate church of St. Peter). From 1798 the barons of Laßberg zu Marzoll followed as owners by inheritance. In 1833 Marzoll was auctioned off due to high debt and came to the Baron von Aretin. This finally passed the property on to Erasmus Freiherrn von Malsen in Kaufweg. Erasmus was president of the royal Bavarian Parliament in Munich and his wife Therese geb. Baroness von Ruffin, lady-in-waiting to the queen. He had the exterior of the castle redesigned from 1837. The Renaissance domes (Welsche hoods) of the four corner towers were removed and replaced by battlements in the neo-Gothic style. A crenellated wreath was built on the outer walls of the main building. (Compare Hohenschwangau Castle and Possenhofen Castle ) From 1951 to 1991, the Barons von Ritter zu Groenesteyn, descendants of the Marzoll line of Barons von Malsen, lived in the castle before it passed into the possession of the City of Bad Reichenhall. Since then, the exterior has been renovated and the interior has been secured. The castle courtyard is open during the day, the interiors are only accessible as part of a guided tour.

In 2007, the castle was sold to two investors, Nico Forster and Alfons Aigner, who were planning to set up an Art Deco hotel and a private apartment in the castle. Nico Forster finally took over all the shares. After Forster's death in February 2010, the castle fell to his then minor heirs and the planned work was not continued (as of 2019).

literature

  • Johannes Lang : Reichenhaller Burgenweg - guide to the castles and palaces in the Reichenhaller area . Published by the Verein für Heimatkunde Bad Reichenhall und Umgebung eV, Bad Reichenhall 2004, pp. 32–34.

Web links

Commons : Marzoll Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.burgeninstitut.com/arx_einzelhefte.htm?arx_show=1
  2. ↑ http://www.salzburg.com/wiki/index.php/Lasser_von_Lasseregg
  3. ^ Wolf: Munich political newspaper. Wolf, 1834, p. 88 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ↑ Kinship Malsen zu Ritter-Groenesteyn, see Gothaisches Handbuch des Nels and: http://geneall.net/de/ancestors/1670585/otto-georg-freiherr-von-ritter-zu-groenesteyn/
  5. ↑ Luckily in the fairytale castle. In: Passauer Neue Presse. September 7, 2019, accessed March 12, 2020 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 44 ′ 58.2 "  N , 12 ° 55 ′ 52.2"  E