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Popular Things To Do | Other Things To Do Tips | All Tips (13) A "Lustschloss" is a place to have fun, a place for big parties and during the early 17th century it was quite common to have such a seperate palace just for pleasure and fun.
Waterplays like in Hellbrunn existed also in Italy and France, in Austria it is the only one you may still visit nowadays.
Hellbrunn was built for Markus Sittikus von Hohenems, who used to be prince-bishop of Salzburg between 1612 and 1619 and he was not only ruling over the area of today's Salzburg but all of the area between Carinthia, in the south of Austria up to Regensburg in Bavaria. The italien architect Santino Solari built Hellbrunn within just 3 years. Leave a Comment Directions: Hellbrunn is in the south of Salzburg, you may get there by public bus #25 from Salzburg - Hauptbahnhof !
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This performance was one of my favorites and when you enlarge my pics you will see a golden crown on top of a rock in the middle of this grotto.
then the tour-guide turns on the water and the crown will jump high, just dancing on top of the water-stream and by increasing or decreasing the waterpower it dances up or down. Leave a Comment Directions: For this performance you will have to take part in the guided tour through the "Wasserspiele Hellbrunn"
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Fuerstentisch (table of the prince-bishop) and the Roemisches Theatre (roman theatre) is the first attraction of Wasserspiele Hellbrunn that you will see during the guided tour. This table has some fountains built into each and every chair, except the one for the princebishop of course and back in the old times, while everbody was dining the fountains would start to flow all of a sudden. It certainly was a lot of fun in the old times and it also is still today, when the tour-guide will ask for voluteers... Leave a Comment Directions: Fuerstentisch is the first attraction that you will see, when taking the guided tour through Hellbrunn Wasserspiele !
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Markus Sittikus von Hohenems was educated in Italy, so this might be the reason, why many of the frescos inside of the Lustschloss Hellbrunn might remind you a lot of the ones you might have seen in Italy. This is the Festsaal, the large hall for various festivities, dancing, music performances etc.
Enlarge my photographs and you will see great frescos pretending colums and a view into distant halls, but in fact it is all completely flat and just an illusion ! Leave a Comment Directions: This room is part of the Lustschloss, you may walk around there with an audio-guide.
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Mechanisches Theater dates back to the year 1750 and was built by Lorenz Rosenegger instead of another water-grotto. It is without doubt one of the most precious and special exhibits in Hellbrunn: Music is playing by water-power and all of these more than 200 small hand-carved persons and animals in that scenery are moving around, a great work of art and craftmen-ship, considdering that it dates back so many centuries. Leave a Comment Directions: This great water-organ is part of the guided tour through Hellbrunn - Wassergarten.
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Muschel-Grotte / Grotto of the sea-shells is another attraction of the guided tour through Wasserspiele Hellbrunn. That Grotto was built in the basement of the Schloss Hellbrunn, and when leaving that bGrotto again, you better watch the tourguide, so you will catch the right moment, when he turns on the water, flowing out of places that you would never expect...
b.t.w. Inside the museum of Hellbrunn you will see how some of the sculptures are moving their tongue etc. just by water-power and even today without electricity, that was quite fascinating to see. Leave a Comment Directions: Muschel-Grotte / Grotto of the sea-shells is part of the guided tour through Wasserspiele Hellbrunn.
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The guided tour through the "Wasserspiele Hellbrunn" will take you to various grottos and different places, where water-power was used in order to imitate bird-voices or to move certain parts of the sculptures, you will see a "speaking face" opening his mouth, moving the eyes etc. and all of these effects are made by waterpower still nowadays.
inside the grotto that you may see in this tip, all of the walls and the ceiling are covered by great ornaments using shells of all kinds. Leave a Comment Directions: For this part of the Lustschloss Hellbrunn you have to take the guided tour !
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The Chinese Room / Chinesisches Zimmer has a handpainted wallpaper of 1750 and it was quite common to have a chinese room inside of almost every palace in Europe at that time. It was a place to meet with friends and drink tea.
This room also has a great balcony facing the park of Schloss Hellbrunn und the Monatsschloessel above the park. Leave a Comment Directions: Chinesisches Zimmer / Chinese Room is one of the many rooms that you will be guided through by the audio-guide while walking on your own through Schloss Hellbrunn
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When you enlarge my photographs you will see that all of these columns are just painted in an absolutely perfect way and they give you the illusion to see through the columns and you see buildings and landscapes in the back, that are simply part of the great frescos. Leave a Comment Directions: This room is in Schloss Hellbrunn, in the palace, where you will walk through on your own with an audio-guide.
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The Octogon / Musikzimmer is the room with the most beautiful and ornate frescos, the room has a perfect acustic and was used for musical performances. In one of the frescos you may see Princebishop Markus Sitticus handing over a rose to a lady. It is a pity I did not take a picture of that !
From the Octagon you also have a great view down to the Roman Theatre & Fuerstentisch ! Leave a Comment Directions: The Octogon / Musikzimmer is part of the castletour by audiophone inside the Schloss Hellbrunn.
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on June 5, 2007
