Marry like the old aristocracy — weddings in a real Salzburg palace
Schloss Leopoldskron is something else: a rococo palace that has been hosting celebrations for nearly three centuries, where the stucco, the mirrors and the softly creaking parquet each carry their own history. Marrying here is not renting a backdrop. It is stepping into a very long story for a day.
Built in 1736. Reimagined by a theatre genius.
Prince-Archbishop Leopold Anton von Firmian raised the palace on the shore of the Leopoldskron lake, far enough from the city, close enough to its glamour. Nearly two hundred years later Max Reinhardt, the legendary theatre director and co-founder of the Salzburg Festival, fell in love with the neglected estate. He restored it at extraordinary expense, installed the Venetian Room with its gilded 18th-century carvings, built a library modelled on baroque monastery libraries, and cut a hedge theatre into the garden. Artists, statesmen and film history have all passed through these rooms, the palace and its lake terrace also appear in The Sound of Music.
Halls that carry the day
The Marble Hall, with its stucco ceiling and crystal chandeliers, is the classic setting for the ceremony and a seated dinner. Guests gather for cocktails in the Great Hall beneath its sweeping staircase. The Venetian Room holds smaller, candlelit ceremonies. And on the sphinx-lined lake terrace, the evening dissolves into the sunset.
For two, or for 150
From an elopement for two to a full celebration with around 150 guests seated for dinner. Everyone stays on site: twelve individual suites inside the palace itself, plus roughly 55 rooms in the neighbouring Meierhof, and, if you wish, an exclusive buy-out that hands the entire estate to you and your guests.
Lake, fortress, city
The water begins at the terrace steps, the Alps rise behind it, and across the way the Hohensalzburg Fortress sits above the spires of the old town. Salzburg, Mozart’s birthplace, a UNESCO World Heritage site, home of the Salzburg Festival, is ten minutes away: baroque squares, coffee houses, concerts, mountains. Salzburg Airport is just as close, and Munich is roughly 90 minutes by car. Your guests will come for a wedding and stay for a trip.
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That is our motto, and we mean it literally: we organise your wedding from the first idea to the last toast, every detail, every supplier, every guest looked after. Get in touch and we will send you all information you need.
