Austria Classic Hotel Vienna
| Austria Classic Hotel Wien GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1838 |
| Seat | Vienna |
| management | Reinhard Blumauer (owner) Ines Pietsch (Managing Director) |
| Number of employees | 23 |
| Branch | Hotels |
| Website | www.classic-hotelwien.at |
The Austria Classic Hotel Wien is located on Praterstrasse in Vienna's 2nd district, Leopoldstadt . It is a member of the Austria Classic Hotels group and was called Hotel Nordbahn until January 1st, 2008 .
history
Originally, the Zum schwarzen Tor building, completed in 1808, on Praterstrasse 72 (until 1862 Jägerzeile ), served as a residential building for Peter Danhauser and had only two floors . In 1838, one year after the opening of the Kaiser-Ferdinands-Nordbahn (the first steam train in Austria) and the first station building of the kk Nordbahnhof (today Wien Praterstern station ) in Nordbahnstrasse , the building was given an additional floor and was opened as Hotel Nordbahn .
Between 1843 and 1849 Josef Scheiflinger carried out further extensions and extensions to the hotel. The hotel has been family-owned since then.
After July 3, 1866, in the last phase after the defeat of Austria and Saxony against the Prussian troops in the German War in the Battle of Königgrätz , "the remnants of the defeated Northern Army gathered in the entrenchments of Floridsdorf. And in the" Hotel Nordbahn "The high command of the unfortunate army was established on Praterstrasse until it was disbanded."
Between 1944 and 1945 the building was partially badly damaged in World War II and after the war ended, it remained under Soviet administration until 1955. After the end of the occupation , the management of the hotel goes back to Kommerzialrat Felix Scheiflinger, who took over the house from his father Josef Scheiflinger in 1908. In 1961, the management of the hotel goes to Erika Blumauer, Felix Scheiflinger's daughter, who pushes ahead with the modernization of the hotel and hands over management to her son Reinhard Blumauer in 1973.
On the occasion of the upcoming opening of the new Vienna Praterstern train station (previously Wien Nord train station , before that Praterstern train station , originally kk Nordbahnhof ), the Hotel Nordbahn underwent a "rebranding" in the 170th year of its existence and since January 1st, 2008 it has been renamed Austria Classic Hotel Vienna .
The most recent change in management took place in 2010 when Reinhard Blumauer handed over the management to his daughter Ines Pietsch, who thus advanced to "one of the youngest hotel managers in Austria" .
Historical recordings
Very early photo of the hotel (4th from left)
The hotel before 1898
Advertisement, around 1900
Guest garden, around 1900
Photo taken around 1906
Photo taken around 1908
Photo taken around 1908
Photo taken after 1910
Postcard view, 1911
Photo taken in the 1920s
Famous guests
- The Austrian-American composer Max Steiner was born Maximilian Raoul Steiner on May 10, 1888 in the Hotel Nordbahn . He is one of the most distinguished composers in American films and became world famous for his music for films such as "Casablanca" and "Gone with the Wind" . On the occasion of Max Steiner's 100th birthday, a plaque for the composer was unveiled in 1988 by the hotel owner Reinhard Blumauer, District Chairman Heinz Weißmann and the Mayor of Vienna Helmut Zilk .
- A Polish member of the Vienna Secession , the visual artist and playwright Stanisław Wyspiański stayed in the Hotel Nordbahn on his way back from Bad Hall to Krakow in the summer of 1904 , where he began to write his German-language dramatic fragment "Weimar 1829". Since 1996, a plaque on the facade of the hotel commemorates Wyspiański's stay.
- Jeannie Ebner , the Australian-born Austrian writer, translator and editor of the magazine “ Literatur und Critique ” lived in an apartment in the backyard of the Nordbahn Hotel in the post-war period, where the author Hertha Kräftner was a regular guest.
Memorial plaque for Stanisław Wyspiański (since 1996)
Memorial plaque for Max Steiner (since 1988)
Unveiling of the memorial plaque (from left R. Blumauer, H. Weißmann, H. Zilk)
The memorial plaques on the hotel facade
Certificates
- 2012/13: "Certificate of Excellence 2013" from TripAdvisor and "Top Hotel 2013" from Holidaycheck
- 2011: "Certificate of Excellence 2011" from TripAdvisor
- 2010: RAL quality mark 50plus Hotels
literature
Referencing literature:
- Hermann Bahr (ed.): Letters from Josef Kainz . Vienna: Rikola Verlag, 1922
- Helga Gibs: Leopoldstadt: small world on a large river. Vienna: Mohl, 1997, p. 67, ISBN 3900272549
- Albert Paris Gütersloh : The dancing fool: Roman. Munich: Langen-Müller, 1973
- Cilly Kugelmann , Hanno Loewy : It was that simple: Jewish childhood and youth in Germany since 1945. Contemporary witnesses from the Jewish Museum Berlin. Cologne: DuMont 2002
- Allan H. Mankoff: Mankoff's lusty Europe: the first all-purpose European guide to sex, love and romance. New York City: Viking Press , 1972
- Franz Julius Schneeberger: Bandits in Franck: Political-social novel from the present. From A. v. S. Volume 2, Vienna, Pest, Leipzig: A. Hartleben , 1867
- Siegfried Weyr : Vienna: Magic of the Inner City. Volume 1 of a city told. Vienna: Zsolnay , 1968
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Czerny, Ingrid Kastel: Vienna: II. To IX. and XX. District. In: Dehio-Handbuch : Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs; ed. from the Institute for Austrian Art Research of the Federal Monuments Office: Volume 2 for Vienna. Vienna: A.Schroll, 1993, p. 36, ISBN 3703106808
- ^ Helga Gibs: Leopoldstadt: small world on the big river. Vienna: Mohl, 1997, p. 67, ISBN 3900272549
- ↑ APA-OTS : Hotel Nordbahn becomes "Austria Classic Hotel Wien" , November 6, 2007 (accessed April 17, 2012)
- ↑ Sonja Lesjak-Rasch: Austria Classic Hotel Wien under new management , Hotel & Touristik, January 28, 2010 (accessed April 17, 2012)
- ↑ Jonathan Bousfield, Rob Humphreys: The rough guide to Austria. Rough Guides , 2001, p. 78, ISBN 185828709X
- ↑ Austria Classic Hotel Wien: History (accessed April 17, 2012)
- ↑ Józef Buszko, Walter Leitsch: Austria Poland: 1000 years relationships. Volume 5 from Studia Austro-Polonica. Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 1996, p. 523, ISBN 832330968X
- ^ Roman Taborski: On the tradition of cultural relations between Poland and Vienna. In: In word and deed: German-Polish cultural and scientific dialogue in the past and present. Publication on the 225th anniversary of the Societas Jablonoviana 1774-1999 / Dietrich Scholze (ed.), Congress: Colloquium. Jablonowskische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaft zu Leipzig; (Leipzig): 1999.11.12-13. Leipzig: Universitätsverl., 2001, p. 186, ISBN 3935693001
- ↑ Evelyne Polt-Heinzl : There is a limit to poetry: Hertha Kräftner: a literary cosmos in the context of the early post-war period. Vienna: Edition Praesens, 2004, p. 8, ISBN 370690263X
- ↑ Austria Classic Hotel Wien: Reviews , (accessed October 1, 2013)
- ↑ Austria Classic Hotel Wien: RAL quality mark of 50plus Hotels , (accessed on October 1, 2013)
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 1.4 " N , 16 ° 23 ′ 22.2" E