Schloss Büchsenhausen, Renaissance castle in Innsbruck, Austria.

Schloss Büchsenhausen consists of a west wing built in 1539 by Gregor Türing as a Tyrolean Ansitz, an east wing added by Wilhelm Biener after 1641, and a narrow connecting tract between them. A crenellated wall borders the small courtyard on the street side, entered through a 1688 portal with two baroque vases, a sandstone statue of St. John Nepomuk and the de Lama coat of arms. In the courtyard corner stands the clock tower with an onion dome, built around 1700.

Gregor Löffler had master builder Gregor Türing erect the Ansitz in 1539 beside the family foundry, which had cast bells, cannon and the first statue for Maximilian's tomb. Archduke Maximilian III bought foundry and Ansitz in 1605 and leased both to gun founder Heinrich Reinhart. From 1686 the knights von Lama held it, extending and baroquising it to plans by Johann Martin Gumpp the Elder; the clock tower followed around 1700 and the chapel was consecrated in 1698.

Since 1993 the eastern annexes have housed the Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen of the Tiroler Künstlerschaft, used for exhibitions and presentations and as studios for sculptors and painters. The name recalls the Büchsen (cannons) cast here by the Löffler foundry family from 1503.

Schloss Büchsenhausen stands on the path from St. Nikolaus to the Weiherburg in Hötting. The 1688 portal with its two baroque vases, the sandstone statue of St. John Nepomuk and the de Lama coat of arms opens onto the small courtyard between the west and east wings. The Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen occupies the eastern annexes, so check its opening times before visiting the studios and exhibitions.

The east wing has housed the Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen of the Tiroler Künstlerschaft since 1993, used for exhibitions and as studios for sculptors and painters. Around 1990 the castle was discussed as a site for an Alpine museum or a "Haus der Alpen". The foundry linked to the site stayed in operation until 1854.