Parkhotel Schönbrunn

The Parkhotel Schönbrunn in Hietzinger Hauptstrasse

Ballroom in the Parkhotel Schönbrunn

The Parkhotel Schönbrunn was built as a guest house for Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1907/08 on the site of the former Café Dommayer according to plans by the architect Arnold Heymann . The architects Josef Beer and Anton Potyka also worked on the interior design .

The Parkhotel Schönbrunn has one of the few preserved classic ballrooms in Vienna, in which numerous traditional balls take place every year. In 1999 and 2000 all public spaces and most of the hotel rooms were renovated. In the spring of 2010, the hotel was closed for a year and a half for the purpose of general renovation and renovations. In November 2011 the hotel reopened. It is operated under the Austria Trend Hotels brand by Verkehrsbüro Hotellerie GmbH , which has leased it for ten years. The owner is the Hübner Hotelbetrieb GmbH , according to the partner Wilhelm Hübner, 25 million euros were invested in the renovation .

The Parkhotel is the scene of a scene in Franz Werfel's 1941 story A pale blue women's font .

Web links

Commons : Parkhotel Schönbrunn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Architects lexicon : Arnold Heymann ; Retrieved June 21, 2010
2. ^ Architects' dictionary : Josef Beer ; Retrieved June 21, 2010
3. ^ Architectural dictionary : Anton Potyka ; accessed on November 24, 2016
4. ^ Hietzing.at: The Parkhotel Schönbrunn is being completely renovated ; Retrieved June 21, 2010
5. ^ Wirtschaftsblatt: Everything is new at the Parkhotel Schönbrunn ( memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); Retrieved November 19, 2014

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 13.6 "  N , 16 ° 18 ′ 7.3"  E