Kupelwieser-Schlössl, Salzburg, Protected tower and house on Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria.
Kupelwieser-Schlössl is a neo-Gothic building on the Mönchsberg in Salzburg, consisting of a tower with an observation platform and an attached two-storey house. The tower was rebuilt after 1863 by zither virtuoso Josef Achleitner, incorporating historicist interiors; some wood panelling and bullseye panes survive. A gatehouse with a marble coat of arms stands before the entrance.
The Falkenturm, first documented in 1364, stored falcons for the archbishop's hunt and later passed to the cathedral chapter, which leased it in 1612 to Konstantin Graf Liechtenstein. The long unstable tower collapsed in 1831. In 1863 Joseph and Anna Achleitner bought the farmstead, demolished the old buildings and erected the present neo-Gothic tower with an observation platform.
The property served as a residence for writer Peter Handke from 1979 to 1988, during which he wrote several significant literary works.
The building is privately owned and not open for interior viewing. However, the exterior can be seen from the Mönchsberg pathways and the structure is visible from various viewpoints around the mountain.
The tower collapsed in 1831, not 1863; the present neo-Gothic building was put up from 1863 by the zither player Josef Achleitner, a former chamber virtuoso of King Otto of Greece, who reportedly greeted visitors with a flugelhorn before leading them up to the Söller. Bertolt Brecht stayed briefly in 1948, working on his Salzburger Totentanz.
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