Seewirt at Mattsee

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Seewirt

The Seewirt am Mattsee is a hotel in Mattsee , a municipality in the northeast of the federal state of Salzburg . It was the location of Mattsee's first seaside resort, the Wallmannbad , and thus the starting point for tourism in Mattsee, which is still important today. In addition, at the end of the Second World War , the Seewirt was a temporary place where the Hungarian Crown of St. Stephen and the associated crown insignia of the Kingdom of Hungary were kept for several months.

location

The Seewirt is located in Mattsee on the promenade on the south bank of the lake of the same name , which was built in the 1930s for tourism.

history

The Wallmannbad

Wallmannsbad and Seewirt, around 1905

Heinrich Wallmann was born on July 10, 1827 in the Seewirt's house. He is considered the founder of tourism in Mattsee and brought as k. u. k. - Medical officer from 1855 brought the first Viennese summer guests to the town for summer vacation . The construction of the first seaside resort in Mattsee in the area of ​​today's promenade is also to be credited to him. On the birthday of Emperor Franz Joseph on August 18, 1869, the Wallmannbad was opened , a "bathing establishment 11  fathoms long and 3 fathoms wide, with several wooden cabins and matching furnishings". Wallmann introduced the place to the tourist guide Mattsee and its surroundings . Between 1870 and 1881 the Wallmannsbad had 4,000 local visitors and 26,000 visits from holidaymakers.

Around 1919 the Seewirt was bought by the Blüthl family, who expanded, rebuilt and renovated it again and again in the decades that followed and still own it today.

The Hungarian Crown Jewels

At the end of the Second World War, the Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Szálasi , an Arrow Cross (Hungarian patriot), fled with the Hungarian St. Stephen's crown and the crown insignia together with his followers via Mariazell to Mattsee in order to protect the valuable possessions of the Hungarian national pride from the break-in of the Russian army . During the days that he spent in Mattsee, Szalasi stayed at the Seewirt. He is said to have lodged with a view of the Unerseehügel, to the left of the hotel, where, according to an anecdote, the crown, orb, and scepter were initially buried by the commandant of the Crown Guard, Colonel Pajtas, and were said to have been from April to June 1945. Hand relics and royal cloaks that could not be buried were handed over to the monastery pastor Anton Strasser for safekeeping, some boxes with royal cutlery came to the Binhütte opposite the hotel (the Fassbinder workshop in Mattsee) and the coronation sword was allegedly deposited in the Zellhof . Szalasi married on April 28, 1945 in the Mattsee collegiate church, then fled with his followers to Munich and Augsburg , where he was captured by the American occupation forces. The crown treasure remained in Mattsee until the Americans took it and brought it to the USA. From there it was only returned to Hungary in 1978; only the hand relique was brought back to Hungary in 1945 by Archbishop Andreas Rohracher von Mattsee.

This episode was commemorated on September 15, 1983, 900 years after the canonization of King Stephen , with a memorial donated by Hungarian vacationers. It first stood on the Unerseehügel and was moved to the park of Schloss Mattsee in 2010 . Another memorial in this regard has been erected on the lake promenade since 2005.

Web links

Commons : Seewirt, Mattsee  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Wallmann . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
  2. ↑ Mattsee Chronicle. 2005, p. 97 f.
    Harald Waitzbauer : Arnold Schönberg is not wanted in Mattse . In: Robert Kriechbaumer (Hrsg.): The taste of transience: Jüdische Sommerfrische in Salzburg (=  series of publications of the research institute for political-historical studies of the Dr.-Wilfried-Haslauer-Bibliothek . Volume 14 ). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-205-99455-8 , summer resort Mattsee , p. 155 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Heinrich Wallmann: Mattsee and its surroundings. Vienna 1871, p. 15; quoted from H. Waitzbauer: Arnold Schönberg is undesirable in Mattse . 2002, p. 156 .
  4. ^ Heinrich Wallmann estate directory . Estates in Austria - Encyclopedia of Persons, Austrian National Library.
  5. ^ H. Waitzbauer: Arnold Schönberg is undesirable in Mattse . 2002, p. 156/157 .
  6. ↑ Hans Spatzenegger: From Budapest via Mattsee to Fort Knox and back. The adventurous journey of the St. Stephen's Crown between 1945 and 1978. In: Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde (Ed.): Communications from the Society for Salzburger Landeskunde. Volume 137, 1997, pp. 239-240.
  7. ^ Peter Gosztony: Final battle on the Danube 1944/45. Vienna 1969.
  8. ↑ a b c d Hungarian Monument on Schlossberg , mattsee.co.at.
  9. ↑ a b This tradition is uncertain; History: Mattsee in the 20th century. ( Memento from December 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) mattsee.co.at.
  10. ↑ Figure file: DSC08156.JPG . In: Salzburger Nachrichten: Salzburgwiki . and file: Stephanskrone in Mattsee, Infotafel.jpg . In: Salzburger Nachrichten: Salzburgwiki .

Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ 17.9 ″  N , 13 ° 6 ′ 21.1 ″  E