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About 1606
Wolf Dietrich built it about 1606 as a pleasure palace
The palace was built about 1606 at the behest of Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich Raitenau. He had suffered from gout and had a stroke the year before, and decided to build a pleasure palace for himself and his mistress Salome Alt.
The name
A new archbishop renamed the palace after Raitenau was deposed in 1612
When Raitenau was deposed and arrested at Hohensalzburg Castle in 1612, his successor Mark Sittich von Hohenems expelled Salome Alt and her family. He gave the palace its current name, from the Italian mirabile, bella.
Rebuilt
Rebuilt in Baroque style from 1721 and restored after a fire in 1818
The palace was rebuilt in a lavish Baroque style from 1721 to 1727, to plans by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt. Its Neoclassical appearance dates from about 1818, when it was restored after a blaze.
The gardens
The gardens were laid out from 1687 with a hedge theater
The Mirabellgarten was laid out from 1687 under Prince-Archbishop Johann Ernst von Thun, to plans by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. It has four groups of sculpture and a hedge theater designed between 1704 and 1718.
The city
The city bought the palace in 1866, and it later held municipal offices
The palace was purchased by the City of Salzburg in 1866. After World War II it began being used for the mayor's office and several departments of the municipal administration. The Marble Hall hosts the Salzburg Palace Concerts.
Day 3, morning
Next is Mirabell Gardens.
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