Waagplatz (Salzburg)
The Waagplatz is an irregular square in the old town of Salzburg , which was originally created as the oldest square and courthouse square. The square was used as a hay market in the 15th century (together with the east end of Judengasse) and between 1430 and 1650 also as a bread market, which is why it was called the Alter Brodmarkt .
In the northwest, Waagplatz narrows into Judengasse . To the east, Waaplatz borders the much larger Mozartplatz . The town houses around Waagplatz are essentially from the Middle Ages.
The city drinking room
(Waagplatz 1)
The southwest corner of this house should represent the keep of the Hohenstaufen palace complex. The house was a courthouse from 1328 to 1407. In the earliest times of Salzburg, the executions also took place in front of this house. The pillory is still mentioned here in 1590, which probably only moved to Griesgasse at the beginning of the 17th century . After 1498 the front scales were also housed here for a short time. At times it was also Niederleghaus (warehouse, see stacking right ). The first drinking room was built here around 1500. The house burned down in 1635 and was then only an inn and guest house and subsequently had different names: in 1564 it was simply called the drinking room, in 1647 the house at the Mohrenkopf and in 1881 the inn for Archduke Karl. Facing the Waagplatz, the house, which is detached on all sides, has a monumental mural “Saat und Harvest” by Karl Reisenbichler (1928).
The Schafferhaus (today Traklhaus)
(Waagplatz 1a and 2)
The town house with its two courtyard wings and the rear building largely dates from the 16th century. The three-story arcades are remarkable. The current facade was designed around 1860. Georg Trakl was born in this house on February 3, 1887 as the youngest of 13 children , who came from a Hungarian-German Protestant family. Today there is a museum and a memorial for the famous poet in the Traklhaus.
The Gertrater house on the "Porten" was given to the Admont Abbey in 1327 as a replacement for its farm at the foot of the Mönchsbergwand, where the citizens' hospital was established. It was also called "Stumphen und Rudolphhaws" and then Freysauffhaus on the Alten Brodmarkt . Because by marriage it came about the second marriage of Katharina Pauernfeind, née Zapplern, to the factor and sweet wine dealer Christoph Freisauff. Maria Theresia, born on March 11, 1712, the "beautiful Freysauf teresel" , compared Leopold Mozart with the Marquise de Pompadour , who, in his words, "is still beautiful, tall, handsome, fat, well-built, but very proportioned, blonde, has a lot in common with the [...] Freysauf teresel « . Her younger brother Johann Kaspar became his father's successor in 1759 and the largest long-distance trader in Salzburg with " Levant goods ": u. a. Cotton, oak gall apples (for ink), steel, cloth and silk. His son remained single, so that the action was subsequently sold to the merchants Späth and → Schaffer in 1812. The so-called Freysauffkeller , a restaurant in the Schafferhaus, is reminiscent of the “Kaspar Freysauff'sche Handlung” (1706–1803) .
The weighing house
(Waagplatz 3)
The Waaghaus built across the east side of the Michaelskirche was the - probably oldest - Salzburg court building before 1328. Before the middle of the 17th century it was used as a barn , i.e. as a joint sales point, here the baker for bread. The house later became the seat of the city's main scale and was owned by the City of Salzburg until 1815. The centrally located weighing house gave the square its name. The current building dates from the 17th century, the facade design from the early 19th century.
At the end of the 19th century Tobias Trakl bought the house and ran a hardware store on the ground floor until 1913, while he lived with his large family on the first floor, his son Georg Trakl spent his childhood and youth here. The property has been used as a café since 1925.
Hypobank's house
(Waagplatz Nr. 4)
This house has a Romanesque cellar - today used for various cultural purposes - which was most likely part of the central palace of the Imperial Palace from the 12th century, which was laid out under Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa . After Charlemagne (803) and Ludwig the German (861 and 863) held court days here, an even older Carolingian Palatinate can be assumed in this area.
Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa held a court day twice (1270 and 1272) in Salzburg after he had met Archbishop Adalbert III. of Bohemia, as a supporter of the papal party, forced his de facto resignation and took Salzburg under imperial administration. The second day at the farm is described as particularly brilliant. This Palatinate, surrounded by a strong outer defensive wall, was destroyed again by Konrad IV von Fohnsdorf in 1291 after the town's citizens, supported by Otto's army of Lower Bavaria, had defied the Archbishop here militarily. A remnant has been preserved as a Romanesque cellar.
The Waagplatz today
The Michaelskirche is next door and with a view of Judengasse you can see the old Höllbräu. Today the square next to the small church is dominated by the Kuk Restaurant, where there is also an ancient vaulted cellar - called Freysauffkeller - (named after the Freysauff family), which can seat 130 people.
literature
- Friedrich Breitinger / Kurt Weinkamer / Gerda Dohle: craftsmen, brewers, landlords and traders . Salzburg's commercial economy during Mozart's time, ed. by the “Franz Triendl Foundation” of the Salzburg Chamber of Commerce and the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies , at the same time: Communications from the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies, 27th supplementary volume, Salzburg 2009.
- Bernd Euler, Ronald Gobiet, Horst Huber: Dehio Salzburg - City and Country. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7031-0599-2
- FW Zillner: History of the City of Salzburg - Special volumes of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies, Salzburg 1885
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Breitinger / Kurt Weinkammer / Gerda Dohle: craftsmen, brewers, landlords and traders . Salzburg's commercial economy during Mozart's time, Salzburg 2009, p. 156.
- ^ Friedrich Breitinger / Kurt Weinkammer / Gerda Dohle: craftsmen, brewers, landlords and traders . Salzburg's commercial economy during Mozart's time, Salzburg 2009, pp. 188 and 399.
- ↑ Heinz Schuler: Mozart's Salzburg friends and acquaintances . Biographies and Commentaries, Wilhelmshaven 1998, p. 211.
- ↑ Heinz Schuler: Mozart's Salzburg friends and acquaintances . Biographies and Commentaries, Wilhelmshaven 1998, p. 212.
- ^ Friedrich Breitinger / Kurt Weinkammer / Gerda Dohle: craftsmen, brewers, landlords and traders . Salzburg's commercial economy during Mozart's time, Salzburg 2009, p. 156.
Coordinates: 47 ° 47 '56 " N , 13 ° 2' 48" E