Lasseregg Castle

Lasseregg Castle is located in the Salzburg region in the municipality of Anif, in the Niederalm district.

Lasseregg Castle is a rectangular two-story building with a hip roof and a stone portal. The roof is broken up on the south side by a brick central gable. The rooms on the ground floor have barrel vaults with red marble columns and coats of arms made of red marble (1511 and 1596, with references to the family history). To the north is an open staircase, to which a Baroque-style terrace is attached on the west. On the ground floor, corner pillars with a slanted base can be seen. To the south is the entrance portal with a broken pediment and arched frame. The windows have semicircular framed crests with palmette motifs, which were created at the end of the 19th century. The manor was fundamentally renovated in 1839. Remains of an earlier surrounding wall with a loophole serve as a boundary to the adjacent cemetery.

The first documented mention as an archiepiscopal fief, Gut Niederalm, is found in 1418, when Hans Reuter (Rewter) sold the estate to Ulrich Strasser ("ain hof genannt Kirchhof zu Niederalben"). In 1513, Ruprecht Lasser appears as the first of his family as owner of the Kirchhof estate. He expanded it into a castle at this time, as shown by the coats of arms and the year 1511 on one of the columns on the ground floor. However, Emperor Maximilian I only granted Rueprecht Lasser a coat of arms in 1514. Around this time, the farm was converted into a castle. In 1538, Emperor Ferdinand I elevated Ruprecht Lasser to the knighthood with the predicate "von Lasseregg". The Lassers were a wealthy family who owned properties in Salzburg and Augsburg; Thomas and Matthäus Lasser were appointed imperial fish masters at Lake Attersee (Lassereck Castle, belonging to the family, is located in Unterach). In 1614, Christoph Lasser, together with Ferdinand Lasser, was enfeoffed with the property. The former's son, Hans Ehrenreich, followed in 1625 and also became imperial fish master at Lake Attersee in 1637. Georg Gottlieb Freiherr Lasser von Lasseregg (* 1661) sold Lasseregg to his brother-in-law Hilfgott Graf Kuefstein, married to Maria Clara Lasser. In 1729, Ernst Gottlieb Lasser, son of Georg Gottlieb, bought the manor back. With his son Leopold, the Lasser family died out in the male line in 1798.

The properties then passed to Leopold's sister; this Maria Anna Josefa was married to August von Lassberg. Their eldest daughter Josefine was married to her cousin Friedrich Freiherr von Lassberg, so the property remained in the family. Lasseregg then went to Franziska von Lassberg, Baroness Deuering from Kempten and married Baumgartner. In 1852, Lassberg came to her son Rudolf Baumgartner. The knight's fief "Sitz und Hof Lasseregg" was sold to Johann Dengler in 1878. In 1892, the six sisters of Landwürst bought the estate. In 1910, Moriz and Luise Lucas followed, and in 1926 the estate was sold to Eleonore Wallner. To this day, the castle, which has been renovated in recent years, remains in the private possession of the Wallner family.