Schloss Prielau description and photos - Austria: Zell am See (Topic)

Prilau Castle (Schloss Prielau) description and photos - Austria: Zell am See. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Schloss Prielau.

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Prilau Castle is a former hunting mansion of the princes of the church, which has now been turned into a comfortable hotel with 11 rooms. It is located a few hundred meters from the shores of Lake Zeller and is surrounded by a shady garden.

Prilau Castle was first mentioned in documents from 1425. At that time, Christian Glaser from Prilau was its owner. Over the next four centuries, the magnificent palace passed from hand to hand. Some of its owners, representatives of famous noble families, invested considerable funds in its improvement. Until 1722, Prilau Castle was under the control of private individuals. After this date, the mansion became the property of the Chiemsee Diocese. In 1803, the diocese was dissolved, and the Prilau castle was put up for auction 8 years later. The last bishop who came to the palace of Prilau, was Siegmund Christoph von Zell i Trauchburg. Its coat of arms can still be seen above the entrance to the castle.

The palace on the shores of Lake Zeller was acquired by sexton Anton Neumeier. The next owner of the castle was Gerti von Hoffmannstahl, the widow of the writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal. She bought the mansion in 1932 and moved in with her son Raymond and his wife Elizabeth. During the Second World War, the Prilau Castle was confiscated by the Nazis, and after 1945 the Hoffmannsthal family returned it for a very long time.

The transformation of a residential mansion into a hotel took place in 1987, when Messrs. Porsche began to operate here. On the territory of the fashionable castle hotel there is a private beach, a deer farm, a park, a golf course, a helicopter landing pad, and a spa center. A baroque chapel can be seen in the park.

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