Festung Hohensalzburg

Festung Hohensalzburg is a fully walled stone fortress that towers high above the Austrian city of Salzburg, on top of the Festungsberg. With a length of 250 meters and a width of 150 meters, it is one of the largest medieval castles in Europe.

History

Hohensalzburg was commissioned and inhabited for centuries by the Prince Archbishops of Salzburg. Construction started in 1077. In 1462, the castle was reinforced with four towers. The castle was further strengthened several times, but since the middle of the seventeenth century no large-scale changes have taken place.

Hohensalzburg was only besieged once, during the German Peasants' War (1525-1526), and has therefore been preserved in good condition. During the Napoleonic Wars, the last Prince Archbishop fled to Vienna and the castle was surrendered without resistance. In 1852 Franz Joseph I of Austria lifted the status of a fortress and turned it into a barracks. The castle mainly has a tourist function.

Building, furnishing, eye-catchers

Festung Hohensalzburg has several wings, floors and towers. The luxuriously furnished living quarters and bedrooms of the Prince Archbishops are located in the "Hoher Stock". Other eye-catchers are:

The Gunpowder Tower (Krautturm), which never served as a gunpowder store, has for centuries housed a large organ with more than 200 pipes, called the "Salzburg Bull".

The lavishly decorated "golden hall" (a banquet hall) and a sober chapel with a beautiful incidence of light, both built by Prince-Archbishop Leonhard van Keutschach (1495-1519).

The golden room, built a little later than the golden hall, but in the same style, full of ceiling and wall decorations, depicting vines, leaves and animals.

A torture chamber, a salt warehouse. Several rooms have a museum function.

A funicular from 1592, which is probably the oldest in the world. Hohensalzburg also pretends that (although completely renovated) they have the oldest railway in the world running up.

Hohensalzburg also prides itself on the view it offers over the city of Salzburg.

Literature and source

Hannah Brooks-Motl and Others: 100 Most Beautiful Castles in the World . Rebo International, Lisse, 2010. ISBN 978-90-366-2606-4

external links

( de ) Official website of the City of Salzburg

( en ) Private website of the castle

( en ) History of the castle

See the Festung Hohensalzburg category of Wikimedia Commons for media files on this topic.

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