Gösing on the Mariazellerbahn

Gösing on the Mariazellerbahn ( scattered houses ) ; village
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	Scheibbs (SB), Lower Austria
Judicial district	Scheibbs
Pole. local community	Puchenstuben ( KG Puchenstuben)
Coordinates	47 ° 53 ′ 13 ″ N , 15 ° 17 ′ 30 ″ E Coordinates: 47 ° 53 ′ 13 ″ N , 15 ° 17 ′ 30 ″ E
height	910 m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	15 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	19 (2001)
surface	41.27 km²
	Statistical identification
Locality code	06037
Counting district / district	Puchenstuben (32 007 000)
	Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

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Hotel Gösing with train from Mariazellerbahn and Ötscher

Gösing station and the hotel in 1907

Gösing an der Mariazellerbahn is a place in the municipality of Puchenstuben in Lower Austria. It is located on the Mariazellerbahn and essentially consists of the two Rotten Ameiskogl and Schaflahn . The place name Gösing goes back to a resolution of the Lower Austrian state parliament on March 3, 1957.

The two most important facilities of the place are on the one hand the train station on the Mariazellerbahn at an altitude of 890 m above sea level. A. and, since the beginning of tourism at the beginning of the 20th century, the historic Alpenhotel Gösing. The village can be reached via a spur road that branches off from the B28 .

Alpenhotel Goesing

The Alpenhotel Gösing is a luxury hotel founded in 1922 and expanded in the early 1990s on the Mariazellerbahn in the municipality of Puchenstuben in the Ötscher-Tormäuer nature park at 891 m above sea level. A. The house, situated in a lonely, spectacular location, was and is visited by numerous prominent guests.

history

Since 1907, there has been an inn on the site of today's hotel, which benefited from the isolated but easily accessible location directly on the newly created railway line and from the impressive view of the Ötscher .

In 1922, the Viennese wood industrialist and Czech citizen Siegmund Glesinger (1863–1941) , who was born in Mährisch Ostrau , had the hotel expanded into a luxury hotel of the type of a classic railway hotel , which, although smaller and isolated, did not need to shy away from comparison with the hotels in the Semmering region . Among the prominent guests in the interwar period was Arthur Schnitzler , who visited the house with the Dutch actress Berthe Brevee (1883–1963).

After the Anschluss in 1938, Glesinger and his family had to flee because they were persecuted by the Nazi state because of their Jewish origins. The estate and hotel went to Hermann Göring's Austrian godmother Elisabeth Edle von Epenstein-Mauternburg, who, however, died in 1939 and appointed her confidante Otto Metz-Randa as heir.

During the Second World War , the hotel was used as a rest home for Air Force officers. After the war ended in 1947, a public administrator appointed and there was 1952, the provision to the Glesinger'schen heirs. These sold in 1955 to the Ennser sugar factory, a company from the Hohenau sugar factory ( Strakosch brothers ). Later, the estate and hotel, together with the entire sugar industry, came under the influence of the Raiffeisen cooperative group . At the beginning of the 1970s - at Hermann Withalm's long-term vacation spot - the ÖVP held several closed meetings, and on January 21, 1971 Withalm announced his resignation as chairman of the ÖVP . Because of the isolated and difficult to find location of Gösing, the then Vice Chancellor Withalm was left at his vacation spot as a "personnel reserve" for the federal government during the occupation of the CSSR by Warsaw Pact troops in August 1968.

In the 1980s, a successful spa business was established in Gösing, and former Chancellor Bruno Kreisky was one of the regular guests of the house. In May 2004, on the occasion of the Central European Catholic Day and the “Pilgrimage of the Nations” to nearby Mariazell , Federal President Thomas Klestil gave a reception here, which was attended by the Presidents of Hungary, Ferenc Mádl and the Czech Republic ( Václav Klaus ).

In the medium term, the bond with the sugar industry turned out to be a disadvantage, the hotel is currently in individual private ownership and is being carefully and gradually renovated.

literature

Bernhard Gamsjäger : Puchenstuben , Puchenstuben 2004

Individual evidence

^ According to information provided by Bernhard Gamsjäger and the Puchenstuben land register (BG Scheibbs), EZ 1, Otto Metz Randa inherited the property after Elisabeth Epenstein Mauternburg in 1942. In 1947, the Gösinger estate manager Karl Fuchsbichler was appointed public administrator. In 1952 it was returned to Max Glesinger and Edith Fischel, who sold it to Ennser Zuckerfabrik AG in 1955 (see B. Gamsjäger, Puchenstuben, Puchenstuben 2004, p. 233).

Web links

Commons : Gösing an der Mariazellerbahn - collection of images, videos and audio files

[1] According to information provided by Bernhard Gamsjäger and the Puchenstuben land register (BG Scheibbs), EZ 1, Otto Metz Randa inherited the property after Elisabeth Epenstein Mauternburg in 1942. In 1947, the Gösinger estate manager Karl Fuchsbichler was appointed public administrator. In 1952 it was returned to Max Glesinger and Edith Fischel, who sold it to Ennser Zuckerfabrik AG in 1955 (see B. Gamsjäger, Puchenstuben, Puchenstuben 2004, p. 233).