Parkhotel Pörtschach am Wörthersee
| Parkhotel | |
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| city | Pörtschach am Wörther See , Carinthia, Austria |
| address | Hans Pruscha way 5 |
| Website | www.parkhotel-poertschach.at |
| Hotel information | |
| opening | 1963 |
| owner | List Hospitality Group |
| management | Vacant |
| Classification | ★★★★ |
| Furnishing | |
| room | 195 |
| Restaurants | 2 |
| Bars | 1 |
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Coordinates: 46 ° 37 ′ 54.9 ″ N , 14 ° 8 ′ 39 ″ E The Parkhotel Pörtschach (operator: Kurhotel Pörtschach ) is a hotel on the Pörtschach peninsula on Lake Wörthersee in Carinthia . It was built in its current form in 1963 and has since been adapted several times to the changed tourist needs. In its basic structure and its furnishings, however, it has largely been preserved in its original form to this day. The hotel has been owned by the List family of entrepreneurs since the late 1960s and is now part of the List Hospitality Group .
history
History of the construction site
The porcelain manufacturer Ernst Wahliss acquired the property from the headland to the main road in 1882 and had the Wahliss establishment built on it. The facility consisted of numerous objects, as well as leisure and sports facilities. The peninsula was transformed into a nature park with promenade paths. Every summer day there were music, cultural or leisure events that were attended by numerous guests.
After the death of Wahliss in 1900, his family could only keep the hotel for a short time and subsequently the owners changed several times. In 1928 the municipality of Pörtschach acquired the area and had some adaptations made. During the Nazi era , the hotel came into the possession of the German Reich, the hotel business was stopped and parts of it were used for a Reich finance school and later as a hospital.
After World War II , the area was used by the British and closed to the public. The condition of the buildings had deteriorated over the years when in 1953 the municipality of Pörtschach acquired the area again and commissioned the first planning.
At the site of the hotel at the time the 1894 built was Villa IX of the Establishment Wahliss, a three-storey, excessive of central tower and side bay windows large building with surrounding porches quite the historicist-romanticized Heimatstil the summer resort architecture of the Belle Epoque .
In 1955, the Viennese architect Georg Lippert was commissioned by the municipality of Pörtschach with planning, which, however, was not implemented. In 1958 the Viennese architect Josef Vytiska received a planning contract and worked out four different variants. These were not realized either.
Movement only started with the sale of the property to the construction company Wayss & Freytag - Simplexbau in 1959. The civil engineer Kurt Köfer designed new building plans, which were submitted to the building authorities in June 1959. He planned the new Park Hotel as a new building on the site of the former Villa IX of the former Wahliss establishment as a north-south-facing structure. The grand opening took place on July 1, 1963.
architecture
The building has a metropolitan dimension and attitude. The impression of the Parkhotel Pörtschach is shaped by the loggias installed over the entire building. The rooms were arranged economically along a central aisle. Due to the location on the peninsula, both sides of the building are largely equivalent and allow all rooms to have the desired lake view.
In terms of the power of its dimensions as well as the details of the furnishings, the hotel is a prime example of international style tourism architecture in the Carinthian lake region of the economic miracle and the design of the 1960s .
Construction and data
The construction of the flat roof was carried out in lightweight construction. Loggias are arranged over all floors, which are oriented to the south due to the angling of the room walls. Together with the generous glazing and the parapets, some of which are now made of glass, they enable the rooms to be extended outside. The entire structure has dimensions of 73.5 x 16.5 m with a height of 33 m.
In the base of the building, there is the driveway covered with a pitched roof on two levels , the reception with lobby and conference rooms, the kitchen and a large, all-round glazed dining room with a terrace in front. When it opened, the building comprised 25 apartments and 147 rooms, each 26 m² in size. After several adaptations, the hotel now houses a total of 350 beds in 195 rooms on seven floors. All have a lake view - 110 rooms face west and 85 face east. In the east there is also access with lifts and staircases.
Due to the compact, flat rectangular design of the building as a large form, most of the green space of the peninsula with around 40,000 m² was retained for recreation. This is publicly usable with promenade paths and old trees as well as bathing and sports areas and in particular the access to the outdoor swimming pool on the peninsula is also used publicly.
Interior
The interior of the Parkhotel has remained almost unchanged since the 1960s. The foyer was designed with tasteful materials in keeping with the taste of the time. The interior of the rooms is simple and elegant with sideboards and shelves in wood and black lacquered metal with subtly used colors.
literature
- Peter H. Schurz: The architecture at Lake Wörthersee in Carinthia from the 2nd half of the 19th century until today. Unprinted dissertation. Graz University of Technology 1983.
- 50 years of Parkhotel Pörtschach am Wörthersee. Illustrated book ( pdf , gat.st).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Park Hotel. In: Wörthersee architecture - villas, hotels and bathing establishments from the imperial era. Heimo Kramer, accessed September 10, 2019 (with historical photos).
- ↑ See, for example, discovering architecture in the Parkhotel in Pörtschach , woerthersee.ws