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Townhouse Weisses Kreuz
Salzburg, Austria · Independent · Accessible Luxury
Bierjodlgasse takes its name from this house: Matthias Grill kept the inn from 1719 to 1754, went by Jodl, and the alley followed him. The building enters the city land register in 1329, when this slope under the Festungsberg was a poor quarter of the cathedral district, and in 1687 Margaretha Waldherr received the first license to tap beer here under the name Weisses Kreuz. Six rooms, a steam bath, and a garden of more than a hundred square meters now sit at the foot of the fortress hill.
- 6 rooms
- Opened 2015
- Neighborhood: Altstadt
- Interiors: Axel Vervoordt
About Townhouse Weisses Kreuz
- In the fifteenth century the money changer Ulrich Samer lived here and enlarged the house as lodging for the three chaplains of the Samer Chapel.
- From the 1950s a family of innkeepers, among them a Croatian major, ran a Balkan restaurant downstairs and let the upper floors as guest rooms. The present owner bought the house in 2012 and finished the townhouse in 2015.
- The whole house sleeps twelve, some of the furniture is by Axel Vervoordt, and the walls inside and out are lime plaster tinted with natural pigments.
History
The house on the slope of the Festungsberg enters the Salzburg land register in 1329, then a poor quarter of the cathedral district. In the fifteenth century the money changer Ulrich Samer enlarged it for three chaplains of the Samer Chapel. From 1682 it passed to beer tappers. Matthias Grill, innkeeper from 1719 to 1754 and nicknamed Jodl, gave Bierjodlgasse its name. Margaretha Waldherr received the first license to tap beer under the name Weisses Kreuz in 1687. From the 1950s a Balkan restaurant filled the ground floor and guest rooms the floors above. The present owner, Biguna GmbH, bought it in 2012 and finished a six-room townhouse in 2015.
The setting
Bierjodlgasse 6 is in the left-bank Altstadt, at the foot of the Festungsberg, in what was once the poor quarter of the cathedral district. A garden of more than a hundred square meters comes with the house, rare inside these walls. The cathedral and the fortress path are the neighbors.
Amenities
- Private garden
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