Neuhaus Castle

The Neuhaus Castle is located on the Kühberg in the Gnigl district of Salzburg and was formerly part of a fortress that ran over today’s Neuhauserstraße to the Kapuzinerberg and the city of Salzburg.

Neuhaus Castle was most likely constructed in the early 13th or late 12th century.Chunradus de novo domo (Konrad von Neuhaus) was referenced for the first time in 1219.The castle became the property of the Archbishopric in the early 14th century and was extended by Neuhaus in 1424 under Archbishop Eberhard III. into a well-fortified summer retreat.

Neuhaus became the site of a court of law, and then a regional court, in 1508.However, by 1599, the structure had become so decrepit that the custodian (judge) had relocated to Gnigl.During the Thirty Years’ War, the castle played an essential role in defending the city and its surrounds, together with the Gnigler Schanze and the Franziskischlössl.After 1650, the castle was rehabilitated for the care court.A lightning strike and accompanying fire in 1695 caused significant damage, and the seat of the court had to be relocated once more.

The Neuhaus care and district court contained the Hofmark Gnigl, the Schrannen Heuberg, Bergheim, Hallwang, and Eugendorf, the Fürst-Chiemseeische Freigericht Koppel, and the Baron-Relingsche Hofmark Ursprung just before the end of the archbishopric. Bergheim’s parish, parish curate Gnigl, and the vicarages of Eugendorf, Hallwang, and Koppel were all subservient.

Oswald Graf Thun rented the castle in 1796 before purchasing it in 1811. Various neo-Gothic historicizing ornaments were added beginning in 1851.

On the occasion of his marriage to Anna Countess von Thun in 1921, Wolfgang Freiherr von Thienen-Adlerflycht received the castle as a present.Soon after, his cousin Adolf Graf Dubsky purchased the castle.This count was a half-brother of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, née Countess Dubsky, who visited Neuhaus Castle frequently.

Until recently, the chateau was privately held by the Topi Mimara family; it was purchased in 1963 by the great painter Ante Topi Mimara.It provided a home for modern art through its gallery.
It is now owned by Hubertus Benteler, a German manufacturer, and is not available to the public.

The castle is made up of the great residential tower, an extended residential structure, and the old servants’ wing, all encircled by a fortified perimeter that was capped with battlements in the 19th century by then-owner Oswald Graf Thun. The castle is only accessible from the south. Since the 19th century, the original residential tower, which dates back to the 13th century and was expanded to five stories about 1400, has been capped with battlements. Many historicizing aspects were eliminated again a few decades ago. A marble slab in the courtyard above the entry to the staircase originates from the former Einödhof in Morzg and depicts an angel with Count Johann Ernst von Thun’s coat of arms.

The five-story medieval dwelling tower remains the complex’s dominant hub (outbuildings, modern new building, outbuildings).