Villa Wartholz

Villa Wartholz was designed by Heinrich von Ferstel in the historicist style in the years 1870 to 1872 for Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria.

Karl Ludwig spent so much time in this area, he reserved this place only for hunting by the imperial court.

On 17 August 1917, Emperor Charles held a ceremony where he handed over the Military Order of Maria Theresa to 24 officers, among them Kövess, Dankl, Arz, Johann Haas von Haagenfels, Wenzel von Wurm, Cavallar and Banfield.

Due to the Habsburg Law the Wartholz villa was owned by the Austrian state.

The Habsburgs staked a claim of private ownership and for many years this was a point of contention whether they would be reinstituted as owners.