Hampel-Haus

The Hampel-Haus is a two-storey, L-shaped building in Sommerein, a market town in Lower Austria. It stands on Schloßstraße, protected as a listed monument. Parts of the walls date back to a church built in 1565. The present house was reconstructed at the end of the 16th century. In the 1960s the architect Karl Pelnöcker restored the decaying baroque structure.

The house mixes late Renaissance and baroque styles. A curved oriel window juts from the upper floor above the street. The windows have stone frames with fine profiles. Both the main entrance and the smaller cellar door are round-arched. A niche holds a statue of the Immaculate Conception carved in the mid-18th century. The exterior walls are finished in scratched render.

Inside, a barrel-vaulted passage leads through the building. Further vaults run beneath the ground floor and the upper floor. The cellars preserve the same vaulted ceilings. The combination of church remains and later domestic architecture makes the Hampel-Haus unusual.