Hotel Kvarner
| Hotel Kvarner | |
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| city | Opatija , Croatia |
| Website | www.remisens.com/de/hotel-kvarner |
| Hotel information | |
| opening | 1884 |
| owner | Liburnia Riviera Hoteli dd Opatija |
| Classification | **** S |
| Furnishing | |
| room | 87 |
| Restaurants | 2 |
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Coordinates: 45 ° 20 ′ 5.5 ″ N , 14 ° 18 ′ 28 ″ E The Hotel Kvarner (formerly Quarnero) in Opatija (Abbazia),opened in 1884,with the associated luxury branch Villa Amalia ,opened in 1890,is the oldest and most traditional hotel of the Croatian spa .
It is the first railway hotel that the Austrian Southern Railway Company built in the spa town developed by it under its general director Friedrich Julius Schüler . Vineyards had previously existed at this point. Originally intended as a sanatorium for lung patients, the house soon developed into a meeting place for the elegant world. This is where Emperor Franz Josef I met the German Kaiser Wilhelm II , the Romanian royal couple and Isadora Duncan stayed here . The historicist building in a prominent location, designed by Franz Wilhelm , a house architect of the railway line and now a listed building, with its magnificent dining and ballroom built in 1913, is now owned by the Croatian company Liburnia Riviera Hotels , whose privatization has been and continues to be difficult for years. The house, in which monarchs and other celebrities once stayed, is now run as a three-star hotel, negotiations with various luxury hotel chains were broken up in view of the problems that a possible renovation would offer (economically necessary increase, construction of garage spaces, incompatibility of such measures with monument protection Etc.). Similar to the Südbahnhotel on Semmering, the Kvarner illustrates the problematic fate of classic railway hotels.
literature
- Amir Muzur: Opatija-Abbazia. Walk through space and time , Rijeka 2000
- Boris Zakosek: Beauty, Sorrow and Profits in Miljenko Majnaric (Ed.): Opatija , Zagreb 2005
- Desiree Vasko-Juhasz: The Southern Railway: Your health resorts and hotels . Vienna, Böhlau, 2006. ISBN 3205774043