Schlossbauerngut Castle

The Schlossbauerngut with the Anna Chapel is a manor from the 15th century in Liefering (Lieferinger Hauptstraße 86), today a district of Salzburg.

In 1463, the Salzburg physician Leonhard Kurz is documented as the owner of the estate in Liefering. Since his will mentions the "estate in Lifring, which he inherited there," a house must have existed earlier. After his death, the property passed in 1495 to his wife Ursula Lyfringin (derived from her husband's nickname, the "Lifriger"), then to their daughter Margareta (1502), who was married to Sebastian Klaner, the Urbarrichter (land registrar) of St. Peter's Monastery. They were followed by Sebastian Höflinger, Chancellor and Hofurbarrichter. From him, it passed in 1576 to his widow and son Sebastian. By this time, a walled farmstead must have existed, which was tax-exempt. Subsequently, the husbands - Hans Jakob Teufl von Pichl and Christoph Georg Schweickhardtsreiter zu Sweykhartsrieth - of Sebastian Höflinger's two sisters took over the property and sold it in 1592 to the noble and steadfast Captain Leonhard Ehrgott. In 1596, he became Colonel Captain of His Royal Majesty of Spain, Salzburg War Councillor, and around 1600 was elevated to the Imperial Nobility by Emperor Rudolf II. He rebuilt the 'house' in Liefering, which had by then become a castle, and essentially gave it its present form; a west wing as a barracks, a ring wall around the farmstead (castle?), and a drawbridge, which no longer exists today, were added. Leonhard Ehrgott remained childless despite multiple marriages. Therefore, the property passed, via his nieces and nephews, through sale to a Georg Ludwig Grimming. This was followed by other nobles such as Ludwig von Grimming zu Neudegg und Liefering, Dorothea Countess von Schernberg, and Thomas Perger von Emslieb.

From 1685, the "Adeliche Süß Lifering" seems to have come into the possession of Franz Georg Grembs, city and court physician of Salzburg and related to the Grimmings. After his death in 1706, his daughter Anna Ursula and his son Stephan Adam sold the estate in the same year to their curator Adam Franz Gutrater (hence also the name Gutratshof). In 1741, he sold the castle to his son Carl Adam. After his death, his six children inherited the property. In 1758, Joseph Claudi von Altguetrat, his sister Maria Franziska Theresia, and their mother Maria Elisabeth sold the entire property to Johann Marian Lürzer von Zehendthal. He was the last noble owner of the castle estate. He was followed in quick succession by the brewer Lorenz Hierl (1763), then his wife Kunigund Böstin (1793), Franz Hörl or Hierl (1803), Anna Waldherr (1824), and finally Jakob Helminger by auction (1833). Katharina Helminger married Hans Unger in 1949. Their descendants still live on the manor today.