Körnerschlössl, Vienna
Factsheet
Objective: Restoration of an historic villa
Location: 1230 Vienna, Kaserngasse 9
Implementation: 1993
Development: 1862
Architecture: N.N.
Architecture/Refurbishment: —
Info/Scope: Historic building fabric transformed into contemporary housing and extended by new buildings in the expansive park area
Körnerschlössl
The architect is not documented, but due to the quality of the Körnerschlössl, he is presumed to be one of the famous Ringstrasse architects with whom the banker, patron of the arts and builder Moritz Todesco was likely acquainted. As a country residence outside the city, the pink villa with towers, projecting risalits and crowning battlements references the English Tudor Gothic style in the fashion of the time, a style that was popular in the Romantic Historicism used for barracks, railway stations, palaces and country houses but was rarely preserved in other residential buildings.
During the post-war period, the structure was used by the Russian Allies and later became an office and school building. Listed since 1990, the historic building was thoroughly refurbished in 1992 and adapted as a modern residential building.
