Schloss Würmla

Schloss Würmla stands in the market town of Würmla in the Tulln district of Lower Austria. Originally a 16th-century water castle, it was rebuilt in 1894 to designs by architect Johann Julius Romano Ritter von Ringe. The three-winged building sits in the southern part of the village, once surrounded by parkland.

The present structure is a two-storey historicist building with a five-bay central projection on its main north front. The east wing has a pitched roof with a triangular gable, while the west wing carries a hipped roof and was extended in the 20th century by a vaulted entrance with an upper-floor loggia. Inside, a grand foyer lined with panelling and a coffered ceiling leads to a spacious central staircase with twin flights. Subtle rosette-studded stucco adorns the flat ceilings.

The castle passed through many hands: in the 14th century it belonged to the Pain family, later to the Protestant Kornfail family, then to the Mayenbergs who carried out a re-Catholicisation in the 18th century. From 1925 it served as a convalescent home for postal workers, and in 1953 became a rest home for the Ankerbrot factory. Since 1970 it has belonged to the municipality and now houses the local council offices.