Schloss Immendorf

Schloss Immendorf was a castle in the village of Immendorf near the market town of Wullersdorf in the district of Hollabrunn in the northeast of Lower Austria, within the Weinviertel region.

From 1942 to May 1945, the Institut für Denkmalpflege (present day Bundesdenkmalamt, Vienna) rented rooms at Immendorf Castle for the purpose of storing art objects that included furniture from the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna and the confiscated Lederer Klimt Collection. On 8 May 1945, on the last day of World War II in Europe, the castle somehow caught on fire, presumably by the retreating German army, but not necessarily the SS as has been heretofore believed, and art stolen by the Nazis and paintings by Gustav Klimt stored therein were lost.

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