Villa Pereira, Historical villa in Sankt Andrä-Wördern, Austria

Villa Pereira, also called Schloss Altenberg, is an early historicist building with Byzantine forms erected between 1846 and 1849 on a slope above the Danube floodplains. The two-storey structure has a nearly square ground plan of staggered cubic elements; its three-storey central risalit rises like a bergfried with corner turrets.

The manor was constructed between 1846 and 1849 by architects Ludwig Förster and Theophil Hansen for banker Louis von Pereira-Arnstein. It emerged during the period when historicism was shaping Austrian architectural development.

The building displays Byzantine-inspired design features that reflect 19th-century Austrian architectural trends. These influences are visible in the towers and the layered cubic forms throughout the structure.

Villa Pereira stands at Greifensteiner Straße 156 in Wördern, in the municipality of St. Andrä-Wördern, on a slope above the Danube wetlands. The building is a protected monument; its exterior, with the three-story central risalit and corner turrets, can be viewed from the street.

The banker Louis von Pereira-Arnstein, who commissioned the villa, was the son of salonnière Henriette von Pereira-Arnstein and grandson of Fanny von Arnstein. Later the house passed to Friedrich Wilhelm von Beust and his wife Mathilde von Jordan, who both died here in 1886 in seclusion.