Villa Warrens, Historical villa in Küb, Austria

Villa Warrens was an east-facing villa near Küb, Payerbach, with a continuous upper floor and an attached four-storey tower. It stood on a park plateau north of the old road, with terraces descending to the Schwarza and a staircase leading down. Its cornices, facade elements and main staircase were made of Untersberg marble. Demolished in 1952, only the gardener's house and park portal remain.

Journalist Eduard Warrens, quartered at Schloss Mühlhof in 1850 to report on the Semmering Railway, bought an adjacent plot and had Otto Thienemann build the Tudor Gothic villa from 1854 to 1858 for 38,000 Gulden. It later belonged to General William T. Sherman and served as Empress Elisabeth's summer residence in 1873. After wartime damage, it was demolished in 1952.

The villa was known as Villa Payerbach after Empress Elisabeth stayed there during the summer of the 1873 World Exhibition; her presence made the estate famous throughout the monarchy and prompted detailed published descriptions of the whole complex. Only the gardener's house and the park entrance portal survive today.

The villa no longer exists: it was demolished in 1952, so there is nothing to visit at the site near Küb. Only the gardener's house and the park entrance portal survive. The park rose in terraces above the Schwarza lowland, reached by a staircase from the river.

The villa was demolished in 1952 after its owner, abroad during World War II, trusted her caretaker's report that rebuilding was pointless. Only the gardener's house and the park entrance portal survive today.