Rauchenbichlerhof, Listed manor house in Schallmoos, Austria

The Rauchenbichlerhof is a protected manor house in Salzburg's Schallmoos district built with stone from Kapuzinerberg quarries. The two-story building with its gabled roof sits alongside a small historical garden featuring a Baroque pavilion.

The estate was first mentioned in 1120 as "Gut Waldbichl" and from 1238 belonged to St. Peter's Abbey, which leased it under hereditary law. From 1597 to about 1677 the Fabrizin merchant family lived here, and from 1677 to 1741 the Kaserer brewing family owned it. In 1741 the Salzburg councillor Franz Anton Rauchenbichler and his wife Maria Theresia Poschinger acquired the property and had it rebuilt; it later belonged to their son Anton, a freedom fighter in the French period.

The stone crest above the southern entrance belongs to the Fabrizin merchant family, who lived here from 1597 until around 1677. It is a carved family mark rather than a later addition, and it shows how a Salzburg trading family recorded its tenure on the estate.

The Rauchenbichlerhof stands directly on Linzer Bundesstraße in the Schallmoos district, in private ownership of the Kapsreiter family and not open to visitors. It can only be viewed from the public street; a petrol station next to the property is the easiest landmark to find it by.

In 1831 the manor was purchased by Baroness Emilie Victorine Wolfsberg, a former companion of Napoleon Bonaparte, who earned the local nickname 'Hundsgräfin' for her many dogs. This curious title became part of the property's story in Salzburg's memory.