Pferdeschwemme
Completed 1695
A Baroque horse-washing pool on Herbert von Karajan Platz, completed in 1695 for Johann Ernst von Thun, the Prince-Archbishop who was one of Salzburg's most prolific builders.
Topic
Baroque Architecture
2 entries tagged Baroque Architecture on Introducing Salzburg.
Schloss Leopoldskron
Built 1736
Rococo palace on the shores of Leopoldskroner Weiher, commissioned in 1736 by Archbishop Leopold Anton von Firmian and purchased by theatre director Max Reinhardt in 1918. Reinhardt turned it into the creative headquarters of the early Salzburg Festival and his own artistic home. The Nazis confiscated it in 1938 after Reinhardt fled.