Grand Hotel de l'Europe (Linz)
The Grand Hotel de l'Europe was a hotel on Linz's Mozartstrasse, opposite today's Atrium Center. The Linz Police Department was later established in the building.
history
The Grand Hotel de l'Europe was built in 1927/28 according to plans by the architect Hans Feichtlbauer and opened on July 4, 1928. It was a five-storey high, wide building, which consisted of a white central building and two dark-colored side buildings, which were each enlivened by two small oriels extending through four floors. The central building had a terrace on the first floor. The building has a long line of corridors on each floor, the rooms of which faced Mozartstrasse.
The hotel was one of the leading first class luxury hotels in Linz at that time. The Colosseum cinema was also established in this building until the construction of the new cinema building on Schillerplatz. The hotel had to close in 1935 due to unprofitability. The house was acquired by the city of Linz and converted into a police headquarters by the architect Curt Kühne , which was housed here until 1981. Between 1938 and 1945 the building was also used by the National Socialists as a prison in which male opponents of the regime were imprisoned.
In 1982/83 the construction was canceled and then a commercial building, in which the fashion department store C & A is located, was built.
Furnishing
In the hotel brochure from 1929 you can read:
Grand Hotel de l'Europe Linz a. D., Upper Austria, Mozartstrasse No. 4-14
Newly built (1928), first-rate house in the center of the provincial capital of Upper Austria, Landstrasse-Mozartstrasse tram intersection.
120 rooms (160 beds), all modernly furnished. Running cold and warm water in all rooms, apartments. Rooms with private bathroom, single bathrooms, electr. Light signal system, hot water central heating, own house telephone system, state telephone in the rooms, passenger and luggage lifts, hall, writing and reading rooms, conference and exhibition rooms, breakfast and coffee salon, dining room and club rooms.
Zipfer beer cellar in Munich and Vienna style, large garden (daily concert), first-class cuisine, serving the famous Zipfer beer.
Bus on all trains and steamers, club hotel of the Automobile Club of Germany , Austria. Automobile club , Austrian touring club, petrol pump, central garage (2 tram stops).
In the house are: branch of the Austrian traffic office , men’s and women’s hairdressing salon, doctors, dental studio and business premises, all cinema and variety theaters (seating 1200 people).
Single room from S 4.50, double room from S 9.– upwards.
literature
- Grand Hotel de l'Europe. Linz 1929. ( digital ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yearbook of the City of Linz 1949, Linz 1950, p. 78.
- ^ Linz, city history, places of Nazi persecution
Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 3.9 " N , 14 ° 17 ′ 30.3" E