Melker Hof, Heritage building in Innere Stadt, Austria

Melker Hof is a baroque-classicist abbey courtyard building at Schottengasse 3–3a, owned by Melk Abbey and laid out around four inner courtyards. Its massive facade is divided only by shallow risales, with triangular and segmental pedimented windows alternating with masks and slab decoration at Beletage level. The two pilaster portals on Schottengasse carry masks on their shoulder arches, with vases and the Melk Abbey coat of arms with abbot busts above.

The building traces its origins to 1438 when Melk Abbey acquired a house to serve as its Vienna residence. Over the centuries, the structure expanded and received its current name designation during the 1500s.

The Melker Hof takes its name from Melk Abbey, which acquired the house in 1438 and ran it as its Vienna residence; the name appears in records from 1510. In the former abbot's apartment on the sixth staircase, the Rococo chapel of the Assumption, consecrated in 1773, holds an altarpiece of the Assumption by Martin Johann Schmidt and gilded figures of the apostles Peter and Paul. The cellar houses one of Vienna's oldest wine cellars, licensed in 1629 to bring in 40 Fuder of wine yearly.

The complex is entered from Schottengasse 3–3a, with a low annex facing Mölker Steig 4; four courtyards lie inside, and a memorial plaque to the 1944 bomb victims hangs in the second courtyard. The Melker Stiftskeller occupies the cross-vaulted single-pillar cellar from the building's construction period. The chapel of Mariae Himmelfahrt is reached via the Beletage of staircase 6.

The former Sala terrena in the rear wing has a ceiling painting by Johann Baptist Wenzel Bergl showing putti with a flower basket. The adjoining Schwind-Stüberl displays wall paintings by Günter Frank and Marianne Cornelius depicting Franz Schubert and Moritz von Schwind with muses.