Hellbrunn

Hellbrunn is a landscape area in the south of the Austrian city of Salzburg, through the eastern foothills of the Anifer settlement Splitters Mühlei is bounded on the north by the Fürstenweg, on the west by the wall of Hellbrunn castle, on the east by the Salzach River in the south. The settlement west of the zoo ahead of the Wall also belongs to the municipality Anif.

The Salzburg Hellbrunn landscape space is divided into two parts: the park Hellbrunn and the east subsequent Hellbrunner Au. Only half a dozen single-family residences are located all along the route Prince to find in this landscape area. The Anifer part, the spatial positions Anif Hellbrunn, Am Hellbrunn Park, as well as Hellbrunnerstraße ( Anif ) and Celts Avenue (after gneiss south / Eichet ), comprises about 25 addresses.

Schloss Hellbrunn Park

Within the landscape space is Hellbrunn Palace, together with its large park, in which the geometric scale water ground floor is located in the far north with the famous fountains. South of it includes the Hellbrunn Mountain with the Monatsschlössl and the stone theater. As a counterpoint to the geometric scale Mannerist garden is located in the very south of the once religiously motivated wilderness garden. The historic castle garden is also the Salzburg Zoo.

The oldest archaeological sites in this area are at the foot of the slope of the Hellbrunn Mountain and among the most important archaeological sites in the province of Salzburg.

The Monatsschlössl

The Stone Theatre

Anif Hellbrunn

The most important building in front of the castle walls, the villa is Swoboda, originally the Mayerhof of the castle, now Casa Austria, home of Karl Habsburg-Lothringen. The rest of the house was built over the years in front of the main entrance of the zoo down to Anifer Thoerl.

Hellbrunner Au

The landscape area between the eastern castle wall and the Salzach River forms the Hellbrunn Au. Two historical axes of Schloss Hellbrunn, created under Markus Sittikus von Hohenems, there are important:

• The avenue of lime trees in the castle axis, which leads to the Salzach today crosses the Alpine Road ( a multi-lane arterial road from Salzburg to the south ) and in the floodplain as a " puncture ". It forms the eastern part of the princely way.
• The large garden axis that crosses the Salzach to the castle located in Elsbethen Goldstein way. Also this axis, which are visible as forest aisles (or should be visible), crosses the Alps road.

The old cultural and natural space is defined by the planned expansion of the local industry Splitters company Maco and Porsche, which originated from a small used by the military barracks of the Nazi era, and the legally problematic partial lifting of the Protected Landscape Area "Salzburg Süd" (formerly " conservation area Hellbrunn called " ) risk. The unique natural landscape gardens of Hellbrunn therefore deviates increasingly a commercial area. Affected by the planned industrial park is also the subsequent vicinity of Anifer Age creek.

" Princely seat " Hellbrunn

Along a 70 m high mountain in the island castle Hellbrunn Park traces of settlement have been found that date back to the 3rd millennium BC. In the Hallstatt period, in the period HaD ( 650-450 BC), where the seats of a prince is likely to have been located. In a garbage dump at the foot of a cliff they found numerous devices and decorative objects made ​​of bronze, iron, bone and glass. On pottery alone fragments were discovered by more than 1,600 artifacts, including a large number of drinking vessels. On the basis of the finds was a close relationship to the southwest of Germany - for example, for Heuneburg - are found in Carniola and the Este culture of the Po Valley. A prince of the seat assigned valley settlement has been localized only by stray finds a likely existing burial ground has remained undiscovered. The royal residence was probably due to its convenient location, a transit point for the salt from the nearby Duerrenberg and for the supply of the mining area. At the start of the La Tène settlement of Hellbrunn Mountain broke off and the economic center shifted himself on the Duerrenberg For this was on the west side of the mountain a small valley settlement that grew so over time that it reaches into the area now Anif handed. From Mittellatènezeit two bodies tombs date in the valley settlement, including a woman grave of 250 v, Chr with rich grave goods. In the 1st century AD in the settlement area was a Roman villa (villa rustica).