Hotel ship
The Hotel Schiff was a hotel on Linzer Landstrasse that went down in history as the starting point of the Austrian Civil War in 1934.
The Gasthof Zum Goldenen Schiff was created in 1788 from the brother house of the poor people, which had existed since 1563.
The Hotel zum Goldenen Schiff , as it was originally called, already existed in the 19th century. In 1895 the first presentation of a gramophone took place in the Hotel zum Goldenen Schiff. From March to April 1897, the city's first regular film screenings took place on the premises of the building, after the first, one-off film screening was held in Roithner's Varieté in September 1896 . In 1909, the hotel was bought by the former traveling cinema owner Johann Bläser, who installed the bio-cinematograph , or later Blaser's central cinematograph , in the hotel building , which was only the second fixed cinema in the city of Linz.
In 1920, after the end of the First World War , the hotel, including the restaurant and cinema, was acquired by the Upper Austrian Social Democrats . In addition to the existing facilities, it was now used as a Linz party secretariat, a workers' home, library and reading room. In the interwar period up to the beginning of Austrofascism , the Hotel Schiff was an important meeting place and retreat for the SDAPÖ and its paramilitary arm, the Republican Protection Association . In 1922 the cinema was reopened as the Central Theater cinema .
When the police began searching the Hotel Schiff for weapons on February 12, 1934, those present resisted and - as previously announced - opened fire: the February fighting had begun. The armed clashes quickly spread to adjacent parts of downtown Linz and a few hours later violent clashes broke out in other federal states between the Schutzbund on the one hand and the Home Guard , the police and the armed forces on the other. The Hotel Schiff was finally captured and confiscated by army units on the same day.
Only in 1948, three years after the end of the Second World War , was the building restituted to the SPÖ . The Central Kino was closed in 2006. The premises of the SPÖ Upper Austria state office, offices and an event center are now located in the premises.
Web links
- Hotel Schiff - February 12, 1934 in the virtual museum Upper Austria, accessed on June 17, 2010.
Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 6 ″ N , 14 ° 17 ′ 24 ″ E