Schloss Immendorf

[1] 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 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[2] and paintings by Gustav Klimt stored therein were lost.

In 1886 Carl Freiherr von Freudenthal, from an old-noble Silesian family, acquired Schloss Immendorf.

After the fire in 1945, the ruins were vandalized for its building stone and the castle reduced to its foundation walls.

On 8 May 1945, the last day of the war in the region, the castle caught on fire presumably started by the retreating "Feldherrnhalle"—a tank division of the German army.