Burg Mauterndorf

Burg Mauterndorf
Salzburg, Austria
Type	Castle

Burg Mauterndorf is a castle in the state of Salzburg, Austria.

Mautendorf Castle is built on the site of an old Roman fort that dates to 326 AD or earlier. The fort protected the Roman mountain road from Teurnia to the Radstädter Tauern Pass and Iuvavum (Salzburg) and served as residence for the Roman provincial administrator. The original fort was destroyed during the Great Migration.

A castle built on the site in later years was funded and supported by a toll (maut) collection system for the nearby road. Evidence for this comes from a deed gift by Emperor Henry II in the year 1002. "Dorf" is a German suffix for village or settlement. The toll system supported the castle until 1253 when the castle came into the possession of Archbishop Leonhard von Keutschach as part of a major transition in the renewal of nearby Radstadt.

Hermann Epenstein, a Christian of Jewish descent -whose father was an army surgeon in Berlin-became a German staff surgeon in his own right. Along the way he purchased a minor title through service and donation to the Crown and became Hermann, Ritter von Epenstein. In 1894 he purchased Burg Mauterndorf and refurbished and restored the castle for use as a residence. The property would later pass to his widow and then to Herman Goring,on his widow's death in 1939. Goring had spent his childhood here as Ritter's guest. Ritter had been the attending physician to Goring's mother and her lover as well as godfather and mentor to young Herman Goring.

Herman Goring fled to this castle at the end of World War II. He surrendered to the US Army at Bruck.

Currently the castle is owned by Wernfied Gappmayer Lungau Regional Museum. A number of other enterprises share the premises including a noted local restaurant and catering service. Other uses have been as a meeting place for scientific conferences of international standing.

The Lungau Regional Museum opened in May 2007 under the guidance of curator Helga Gappmayer. The museum has undergone several stages of construction to achieve its theme of "Tradition with a new look".

See also

• List of castles in Austria
• Mauterndorf

References

This article was initially translated from the German Wikipedia.

1. Manvel, Roger (2006). Goring London: Greenhill Books