Springer Castle

The Springer-Schlössl is a seminar hotel in Vienna-Meidling. It is located at Tivoligasse 73. Originally, the 40,000 m² park area was owned by Baron Carl von Hügel, the head gardener of the neighboring Schönbrunn Palace Park. Hügel laid out both parks simultaneously; 170 natural monuments in the hotel's park still bear witness to his horticultural skill today. Baron Gustav von Springer bought the area from the Hügel family and had the Springer-Schlössl built in 1887 by the office of Fellner & Helmer. After Baron Springer's death, his daughter Marie, who had married Baron Elie de Rothschild, became the owner of the property in 1920, but usually only came here twice a year from Paris, until she finally emigrated to France in 1936.

At the end of 1939, the house was confiscated by the National Socialists as Jewish property and converted into a Gau training house. Towards the end of the war, it was supposed to be destroyed by Allied bomb hits, but none of the 22 bombs hit the Springer-Schlössl, though the park was severely damaged.

After the war, Marie Springer got the devastated villa back and sold it in 1953 to the Verein Wiener Volksheime. In 1975, the decision was made to convert it into a seminar hotel by the Political Academy of the ÖVP.