Villa Trapp
The Villa Trapp , also called Villa Walburga or Villa Lamberg after its previous owners , is a tourist attraction in the Aigen district (Traunstraße 36) of the Austrian capital Salzburg .
The building was built in 1863 by the architect Valentin Ceconi and sold to Walburga Weinwurm, nee in 1864. Reichenberg, sold; hence the name Villa Walburga . In 1883 it was acquired by Berta Countess Lamberg, and her husband acquired additional properties to expand the gardens and parks. In addition, Lamberg had the villa extended to the north by two axes and tower extensions. In 1923 the villa was taken over by Baron Georg Ludwig von Trapp , a grandson of Count Lamberg. He had the house rebuilt by the architects Spindler & Rehrl .
When the von Trapp family moved in, the building became known as Villa Trapp, especially after the film The Trapp Family and the musical The Sound of Music based on it . The Trapp family lived in the property from 1923 until they fled from the National Socialists to the USA in 1938. During the Nazi era, the Reichsführer SS and head of the German police, Heinrich Himmler, resided in the villa and supposedly had the house chapel converted into a beer hall ; "Allegedly" insofar as no chapel room is shown according to the building plans of the house.
The yellow villa was only made accessible for the first time in 2008. A museum, a hotel and a kiosk were to be housed in the park and the villa. These plans were withdrawn by the operators after massive protests by the local residents. The 3.5 hectare park is currently only accessible to guests of the house and members of the Villa Trapp Foundation. Some members of the Trapp family traveled specially from America for the inauguration: Maria Franziska von Trapp (1914–2014), her half-brother Johannes von Trapp (* 1939) and her sister-in-law Erika, Werner von Trapp's widow . The Hotel Villa Trapp is currently in the Villa Trapp. The original Sound of Music family home furnished.
The owner of the Villa Trapp is the Missionaries of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood , who acquired the facility in 1953 and built the St. Josef College in the former park of the villa from 1961 to 1964 .
literature
- Helene Karrer: 200 years of villa construction in Aigen. Aigen Initiative Salzburg Association, Salzburg 1990.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Husty: Villa Trapp in Salzburg-Aigen . The work of art of the month, February 2010, sheet 322.
- ↑ Homepage Villa Trapp ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
Web links
- Villa Trapp website
- Maria Franziska von Trapp visits Salzburg (derStandard.at)
- New pilgrimage sites for Trapp fans (focus.de)
- 'Sound of Music' Villa Opens for Business Article in the New York Times
Coordinates: 47 ° 47 ′ 20.9 ″ N , 13 ° 4 ′ 54 ″ E