Enzesfeld Castle

[2] In 1880 the estate was purchased by Baron Albert Salomon Anselm von Rothschild, who restored the castle and greatly improved the property.

In 1937, on Lady Mendl's recommendation, the Rothschilds invited the Duke of Windsor to stay when he left England, having signed the His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication on 10 December 1936.

[1] The Duke stayed at the castle for three-months until Wallis Simpson's divorce was finalized and the two could wed, which they did at the Château de Candé in France on 3 June 1937.

[5][6] During the Anschluss in World War II, all the Austrian properties of the Rothschild family were confiscated by the Nazis.

Their businesses in Vienna were seized, and Eugène and his family had to pay an enormous ransom for the release of his brother Louis von Rothschild who was imprisoned by the Gestapo.