Schloss Aigen

Aigen Palace is an ancient noble residence in the south of the city of Salzburg and namesake for the modern district of Salzburg -Aigen. It is surrounded by grassland at the foot of the Gaisberg. The property is since 1921 owned by the Revertera family. The castle itself is currently uninhabited and in need of renovation, the owner lives in parts of the well- renovated outbuildings of the castle. An outbuilding to the north houses the gourmet restaurant " Gasthof Schloss Aigen ". Behind the castle building spreads to the Gaisberg towards a more spacious natural park with waterfalls and lookout points from which are used many of Salzburg as a recreation area and tourist destination. In the immediate vicinity there is now the " campsite Aigen Palace ".

History

The castle was created as a noble estate and was first mentioned in 1402 as " freehold " in possession of the cathedral chapter. After several changes of ownership, 1614 Levin acquired from Mortaigne (see Schloss Seeburg ( Neumarkt ) ) the farm and transformed it into an aristocratic country house. The corresponding Wildbad was first mentioned in the 16th century and was due to its medicinal water as well known as the Wildbad Gastein to the early 17th century.

After the death of Johann Dietrich von Mortaigne Aigen fell in 1647 to the barons of Pranckh. They sold varmint 1673 Johann Josef Graf Kuenburg. 1727 went Schloss Aigen with the corresponding Wildbad in the possession of the Secretary kuenbergschen Franz Josef Waldherr over. This could create the first large natural garden in the forest area of the Gaisberg, the grottos and other park buildings equipped by the subsequent owner Basil Amman with numerous monuments, was a meeting point for the Illuminati ( Illuminatenloge Apollo). The Salzburg canon Willibald Wolfegg left the park redesign in 1780 as the English Garden. Hieronymus Graf Lodron, hereditary marshal of Salzburg and its possession successor, canon Ernst Fürst Schwarzenberg made ​​for the further beautification and enlargement of the natural romantic garden and the expansion of the wild bath. In the 19th century the castle was known with its magnificent wild romantic forest garden far beyond the borders of Salzburg. The Bavarian King Ludwig I to have once devoted to the garden even a self- penned poem.

Since 1921, the castle is owned by the originating from Upper Austria Revertera family. In 1939, the castle served the Reich Labour Service before it was used from 1941 as a training center of the German Red Cross. After the Second World War, the Hallein School Sisters were housed in the estate until 1948.

Description

The entrance to the castle square is flanked by two brick pillars on which neo-classical stone urns are from the 18th century. The castle itself is a rectangular, four-story building with one, framed with pilasters Biedermeier façade and a high roof. The Western Front in the yard is grown a five-story tower. Enclosed is the lock trapezoidal around a courtyard of three low, once applied as farm buildings residential buildings.

At the northern round arch is found since 1921 the marble coat of arms of the Counts Revertera and Prince Schwarzenberg. At the northern farm buildings four Marble slabs are walled with former grave stones of the former cemetery with skulls, each with four bat wings from the 17th century. South of the main building, an annex was built in 1920, in the Oval Hall in the 17th century -made Carrara marble bust of Cardinal Ippolito Aldobrandini, who later became Pope Clement VIII is. The castle building makes a run down feel today.

The former farm buildings north of Ansitzes originate in today's buildings mostly from the second half of the 19th century. In them you will find the Gasthof Schloss Aigen.

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