Benedikt Castle

The Benediktschlössl, also known as Lebzelterhaus, Kriossen- or Berneggerschlössl, is located in the municipality of Hallein in the district of Hallein in Salzburg (Krautgasse 1).

The building contains an older part from the 16th century. The house belonged to St. Peter's Abbey and was issued by it. It is first mentioned in a document in 1662 that the house and garden were granted by hereditary right to Petrus Pachler, official of St. Peter, and his wife Maria Jakobe Faberin. Further owners were Ruepp Riedl (1664), Michael Fuchsberger and his wife Anna Magdalena (1673), Georg Anngerer and Helena Wisenauer (1692), Georg Kreis (1700, by profession gingerbread maker and wax chandler). After the death of Marie Elisabeth Khreiss, it passed to her daughter in 1706, then to Johann Michael Rieder (1745) and after 1773 to his heirs, in 1822 to Franz Wallner. Since all of these were gingerbread makers and wax chandlers, the building is also called Lebzelterhaus (a wax bleaching facility was therefore built in the garden). In 1877 Josef Breymauf acquired it, in 1855 Maria Kobercz. In 1866 the house came to the Benedikt family, in whose possession it still is today.