Tanzmeisterhaus Salzburg

His son Franz Gottlieb Spöckner [de] (1706–1767) bought the house from his mother in 1739 and succeeded his father as court dancing master.

[1] The house on Getreidegasse, where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his siblings had been born, became too small for Leopold and Anna Maria's family to live, or to host social gatherings.

In 1773, six years after the death of Franz Gottlieb Spöckner, the Mozart family moved into a spacious, 8-room apartment in the Tanzmeisterhaus, including a large hall which had been used by the dancing master for lessons.

This the Mozarts used for teaching, for domestic concerts, for storing keyboard instruments sold by Leopold, and for Bölzlschiessen, a form of recreation in which the family and their guests shot airguns at humorously designed paper targets.

In the part of the building that remained, the late 18th-century stucco decoration was restored in the dancing master's hall in 1956/1957.