Schloss Wasserhof is a privately owned building in Gneixendorf, near Krems an der Donau in Lower Austria.

During his stay the composer wrote the finale to his String Quartet Op.

It was a replacement, composed at the suggestion of his publisher, of the Große Fuge, the original finale.

He began the piece in September, and sent the manuscript to his publisher on 22 November 1826; he left Gneixendorf soon afterwards.

[3] In recent years the building has been restored by the present owner, the architect Ernst Linsberger.