Mauerbach is a town on the western boundary of Vienna, Austria.

It hosts the summer houses of many rich Viennese families as well as Mauerbach Charterhouse (Kartause Mauerbach), a Carthusian monastery founded in 1313, closed in 1782.

The village is also home to association football team SC Mauerbach, who play in Austria's lower leagues.

[3][4] In 1985, 496 paintings, 146 drawings, watercolors, prints and sculptures and thousands of books and other items that the Allies had recovered after World War II and turned over to the Austrian authorities so that they could return them to their rightful owners were found to be still stored in Mauerbach.

[6] Investigative news articles revealed the cache of artworks and caused a scandal.