Schloss Fuschl, Hunting lodge turned hotel on Lake Fuschl in Hof bei Salzburg, Austria

Schloss Fuschl is a former hunting lodge on a peninsula at the western end of the Fuschlsee, in Hof bei Salzburg. Its historic four-storey residential tower is visible from the village of Fuschl am See across the water. Inside, the cellar vaults date from the 16th century, and some wooden beam ceilings, door frames and stucco mirrors survive from the lodge's earlier period.

Schloss Fuschl was built around 1461 for Salzburg Prince-Archbishop Sigmund I von Gleink-Volkerstorf and Cardinal Burkhard von Weißpriach as a hunting lodge; the first written record of an archiepiscopal hunt dates from 1545. Archbishop Wolf Dietrich had it repaired in 1593, and a grand hunt was held under Paris Graf von Lodron in 1624. After Salzburg passed to Austria in 1816, the castle decayed until the Linz shipmaster Michael Fink bought it in 1864. In 1938 Gustav von Remiz was deported to Dachau, where he died in 1939, and the castle became Joachim von Ribbentrop's summer residence; it was restored to the Remiz family by 1955.

Schloss Fuschl was used as a filming location for the Sissi films in 1955, 1956 and 1957, standing in for Schloss Possenhofen on Lake Starnberg, with Romy Schneider and Karlheinz Böhm in the leads. The castle holds a museum with objects relating to those films and a collection of Old Master paintings, much of it acquired from 1864 onward.

The castle operates today as a luxury hotel with rooms in the main building and separate cottages by the lakeshore. Visitors should know this is a private residence with hotel operations, so access is only available to guests.

The cellar vaults survive from the 16th century, along with individual wooden beam ceilings, door frames and stucco mirrors from the hunting lodge period. Most of the art collection dates from purchases made after 1864, when the Linz shipmaster Michael Fink bought the estate.