Villa Antoinette

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The Villa Antoinette former ( House Duchkowitsch is) one below the 1904 Semmering Pass built villa in the Lower Austrian town of Semmering . It is part of the historic villa and hotel colony on the Semmering and belongs to the vicinity of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Semmering Railway .

architecture

The building has a high quarry stone plinth above which two floors rise. The curved gable roof with the dwarf house is drawn down low. The windows have shutters and there is also a wood and glass veranda.

history

At the end of the 19th century, the summer resort of the wealthy Viennese population developed on Semmering, supported by the construction of the Semmering Railway, inaugurated in 1854. A villa and hotel colony was built at the instigation of Viktor Silberer . As part of this colony, the Pension Antoinette was built in 1904 in the typical Semmering style (a local variant of the Heimat style ), which was shaped by the architect Franz von Neumann . The guesthouse had 17 beds, an in-house cinema and a lounge area. The owner was the retired Major Emil Sajatovic. In later years a bathhouse was added and the building was run by Ingeborg Duchkowitsch under the name Haus Duchkowitsch . From December 1998 the building belonged to the defined local area and to the surrounding cultural landscape of the historical-tourist settlement landscape of the World Heritage Semmering Railway. As part of the application, it was on the list of listed objects with special reference to the UNESCO World Heritage Site and is described in the Dehio .

In 2012, the property was taken over by investors, renovated and, since its reopening in October 2014, marketed as Villa Antoinette as a holiday home.

Media presence

In addition to reports in newspaper articles, the villa was named one of the top 5 Austrian winter chalets by Forbes magazine , recommended by Elle Decoration Germany as the editors' favorite tip and featured on the front page in Monocle Escapist magazine 2017 and on Schlossseiten 01/2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 , p. 2234
  2. ^ Alfred Komarek : Semmering: Austria from the inside . Haymon Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7099-7403-2 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  3. ↑ Sibylla Zech u. a .: World Heritage Semmering Railway Management Plan . Stadtland i. A. Friends of the Semmering Railway, Vienna July 2010, p. 10 u. 26 ( semmeringbahn.at [PDF]).
  4. ^ Matthias Marschik, Eduard Völker: Around the Semmering . Sutton Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-95400-344-0 , pp. 51 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Evelyn Pschak: With Mr. Edi. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . December 20, 2017. Retrieved April 14, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Hotels with an extra kick: the romance factor to the power of ten. In: Focus . August 11, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Schlossseiten issue 01 2018 . In: Issuu . ( issuu.com [accessed April 26, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Nolan Giles: Sleeping beauty. In: The Escapist Monocle Magazine. June 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Ingrid Bahrer-Fellner: Villa Antoinette: A chalet to fall in love with. In: Courier . March 4, 2016, accessed April 18, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Christine Imlinger: The saviors of the old summer resort. In: The press . July 21, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2018 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 38 '58.4 "  N , 15 ° 49' 8.4"  E