Minnesheim Castle

The Minnesheimstraße Castle is a native of the 17th century building in the Austrian city of Salzburg in the district of Gnigl . It is now owned by the municipality and used for residential purposes.

history

Minnesheim Castle after a colored etching by Friedrich Müller around 1793

The castle was built by Archbishop Paris Lodron as a summer residence and family seat (and especially for his sister-in-law Countess Katharina Lodron) in 1644 on the site of the so-called Hofhölzl and is now located at Grazer Bundesstrasse 22.

The drainage of the Schallmooser Moors, initiated by Paris Lodron, made it possible to develop the area around what is now Gnigl. With its two kinks in the wall, the little castle was adapted to the existing street. From the garden hall on the front we went into the park with its avenue of lime trees.

The inscription "Dulce oblivia vitae" (Latin, "It is sweet to forget life") is on the castle. This expresses the thought of disappearing from everyday worries. An artistically landscaped park belonged to the castle (today: Minnesheim Park or Gnigler Park). The old baroque garden was redesigned by Franz Graf Lodron, court marshal of Archbishop Hieronymus von Colloredo around 1790, into a romantic garden in the style of classicism and early romanticism and as a place of pleasure for everyone . The ten park views were: "Schlösschen", "The Dutch Meierhaus", "The monument to Emperor Leopold I", "The chapel", "The rabbit castle in the duck pond", "The pigeon house", "The bust of Horace", “Memorial monument of 1793”, “The Chinese bridge”, “The Chinese pleasure house on the rose hill”, “Three-sided marble pedestal with three inscriptions (The lonely contemplation, the thinking reader, the sociable pleasure)”, “Chinese bird house”, “Pyramid for In memory of the nouvelle Heloise ”and“ Family monument of the Counts Lodron ”. An obelisk with its secret symbols identified Count Lodron as a Freemason . Since the park was open to the general public, the nobility held back. In the Franziszeischen cadastre from 1830 the park is shown as an ornamental garden with partly symmetrical, partly asymmetrical paths and squares.

Minnesheim Castle today

Back of the lock

Memorial stone in Minnesheimer Park

Baron Helldorf, to whom Minnesheim fell in 1885, had all the furnishings, with the exception of a single memorial stone, brought to his Tallenstein Castle near Völkermarkt in Carinthia and in 1915 sold the castle to the Gnigl community at the time. From 1915 to 1928 the converted house served as a primary school. It was then converted into a tenement house. As a result, the castle character has been more or less lost; the outside of the building is also looking run-down.

The palace building was separated from the park with the construction of the Grazer Bundesstrasse. This still exists today as a 2 hectare community park; however, the ornate systems have been lost. Today it has been redesigned to resemble an English garden . Most of the trees come from the time the park was founded.

The figure ensemble The Four Seasons is set up in the park ; Within the four allegorical figures of the seasons there is a stone cube that tells the early history of the Lodrons family on three sides. A presumable relief, which would be important to explain, has been lost. The three inscriptions are as follows:

“ NEW YEAR'S EVE LATERANUS BARO LODRONI PORTAM HIEROSOLIMORUM SUB GODFREDO BULLIONIO OCCUPAN'S PRIMUS COMES LODRONI AC CASTRI ROMANI CREATUS ALLO ML. "

- Quoted from Clemens M. Hutter (2011, p. 15)

“New Year Lateran, Baron von Lodron, when he took possession of the Jerusalem gate under Godfried von Bouillon. He was raised to Count Lodron and the Roman camp in 1050 ”(op. Cit.). The translator notes, however, that the Godfrey of Bouillon crusade first took place in 1099.

“ AD PERIPATUAM REI MEMORIAM AC IN POSTERIUM EMULATIONEM FELIN IN PATRIAM PEDOX FF ANNO MLII. "

- according to Clemens M. Hutter (2011, p. 15)

“In 1052, as a permanent reminder of this heroic deed and as a model for posterity, he initiated the successful return (a trophy?) To the fatherland” (op. Cit.).

" DIGNORE TANTI VIRI ERECTO MONUMENTO CARA VESTIGIA INJURIAE TEMPORUM EREPTA HIC TRANFERRI JUSSIT FRENZISCUS NEPO ANNO MDCCXCV. "

- according to Clemens M. Hutter (2011, p. 15)

"After erecting a worthy memorial for such an important man, the descendant Franz ordered in 1795 to remove the expensive remains from possible damage by circumstances and to bring them here" (op. Cit.).

literature

Eva Berger : Historic Gardens of Austria: Upper Austria, Salzburg, Vorarlberg, Carinthia, Styria, Tyrol (Volume 2) . Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-205-99352-7
Liselotte Eltz-Hoffmann: Röcklbrunn and Minnesheim: The two country seats of Archbishop Paris Lodron. Bastei , 2011, Vol. 60 (1), pp. 15-18.
Inge Harlander: Minnesheim Castle in Salzburg-Gnigl. Dipl.-Arb., Salzburg 1988.
Clemens M. Hutter: Immortalized in Latin in Gnigl. In Bastei , 2011, 60/2, 15.
Martin Zehentner: Castles, manors and residences in Gnigl. In Sabine Veits-Falk; Thomas Weidenholzer (Ed.): Gnigl. Medieval mill village - parish on the railway - Salzburg district (pp. 226–241). District Association Gnigl and City Municipality of Salzburg (series of publications of the Archives of the City of Salzburg, vol. 29), Salzburg 2010.

Web links

Commons : Minnesheim Palace - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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