Palais Hansen

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The Palais Hansen, on the left the Ringturm
Middle part of the facade

The Palais Hansen (name since about 2000) is a style of Neo-Renaissance built from 1869 to 1873 building in the first  Viennese district , Inner City , Schottenring 20-26 / Gonzagagasse / Zelinkagasse / Neutorgasse. Designed as a hotel by Theophil Hansen and used as an official building for 56 years from 1941 onwards, it is a listed building and has housed a Kempinski luxury hotel since 2013 .

history

The building was built during the construction of the Vienna Ringstrasse and served as a representative hotel during the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 . Two years later the (kk) Police Directorate Vienna was opened at Schottenring 11 , which was housed here until 1945. (The Vienna State Police Department has been located at Schottenring 7–9 since 1974. ) In 1877, two blocks west of the building, the new Vienna Stock Exchange , also designed by Hansen, opened and was used as such until 1998.

The style of the building is called neo-renaissance and is part of Viennese historicism. The building complex, which takes up an entire block, shows the style of reluctance to use plastic and painted art objects.

After the world exhibition, the hotel was converted into a residential building by the owner, Porr , and served as an official building from 1941. After 1945 it housed the offices of the city ​​councils in charge of social affairs and health , the Vienna Hospital Association (KAV, part of the city ​​council ), the health department ( MA 15 ) of the city of Vienna and other relevant departments.

Palais Hansen Kempinski Vienna

In 1997, after relocating their offices, the Vienna city administration sold the building to a consortium of companies that wanted to renovate it and restore it to its original hotel use. Palais Hansen Immobilienentwicklung GmbH has been the owner since 2012, in which the Vienna Insurance Group holds 56.5%, the real estate subsidiary of Porr , Strauss & Partner Development (then Porr Solutions) holds 33.6% and the Warimpex Group 9.9%. involved.

Architectural detail: Palais Hansen

The Kempinski hotel chain leased the building and opened a five-star hotel in it in March 2013 .

The Palais Hansen has a floor area of ​​around 4850 m² and a gross floor area of ​​around 22,000 m². It has three courtyards. On the fourth floor and the top floor there are now 17 penthouse residences that can be sold as condominiums with areas of 130 to 340 m², including four in connection with the distinctive domes of the central part of the block. A total of 152 hotel rooms and suites, two restaurants, a coffee house, a fitness and spa area with swimming pool, six meeting and conference rooms for up to 280 people and an underground car park were built on the floors below. For example, the Austrian investment banker Florian Koschat lives in the hotel.

The architect for the redesign was Boris Podrecca from Vienna .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ORF-Online from October 25, 2009
  2. ^ Seven Palais Hansen Kempinski Vienna | Vienna, Austria , fivestaralliance.com
  3. ^ Wien.at - Information and services from the Vienna city administration. Retrieved March 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Claudia Ruff: “Word of mouth is enough” , in: Der Standard daily newspaper , Vienna, June 16/17, 2012, Supplement Immobilien-Standard , page I 6
  5. ↑ PULSE 4: Living in a hotel ?! Retrieved March 12, 2019 (Austrian German).

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 58.5 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 6.6 ″  E