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Kate Connolly in Salzburg

‘One rule for the rich’: the Salzburg mansion, the Porsche heir and the writer Stefan Zweig

A large yellow and white mansion in a wooded area
Paschinger Schlössl is situated on Kapuzinerberg, a picturesque wooded hill in Salzburg, Austria. Photograph: Ullstein Bild/Getty

For three years the peace and quiet of Doris Rüggeberg’s cosy flat on the Kapuzinerberg, a picturesque wooded hill in Salzburg, has been interrupted by the noise from the nextdoor neighbour’s building site.

Wolfgang Porsche, a German-Austrian automotive magnate, bought the 17th-century villa at No 5 as a second home in 2019 for about €9m (£7.8m). Ever since, he has been busily renovating the property before he and his partner, Gabriele Prinzessin zu Leiningen, move in this winter.

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