Schloss Hohenbrunn, Baroque castle and hunting museum in Sankt Florian, Austria
Schloss Hohenbrunn is a hunting lodge in Sankt Florian with four wings, two stories, and a hipped roof surrounding a central courtyard with decorated loggias. Inside, visitors find collections of lithographs, porcelain pieces, and hunting weapons from different periods.
Provost Johann Födermayr, a farmer's son from Pfaffenhofen, had the hunting lodge built on the site of his birth house, the Födermayrhof documented since 1071. Plans came from Jakob Prandtauer; builder Jakob Steinhuber executed them between 1722 and 1732. Födermayr died in 1732, the year it was finished, and Prandtauer had already died in 1726.
The castle's name comes from a water tower built between 1719 and 1724 that supplied drinking water to the nearby monastery. This structure shaped how locals understood and named the place.
The castle can be rented for festivities, family celebrations and conferences, and it houses the Upper Austrian Hunting Association's education and information centre. The entrance building, the Torstöckl, stands parallel to the castle and frames a view of the main building; the oversized stag antlers above its portal mark the former hunting lodge.
The collection of lithographic works by Josef Anton Strassgschwandtner shows rare 19th-century hunting methods with great detail and craftsmanship. These prints are evidence of a bygone era in European hunting culture.
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