Villa Seilern

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Front view of the historic Villa Seilern in Bad Ischl

The Villa Seilern is a historic building, hotel and spa in Bad Ischl in Upper Austria .

history

The classicist villa , which is now run as a hotel, was built in 1881 under the Viennese city ​​architect Wilhelm Pils on behalf of the widowed builder Elisabeth Countess von Seilern und Aspang. The original construction plans are still preserved today and are in the Bad Ischl municipal building authority. After completion, tea concerts and theater evenings took place in the social open house, and well-known artists such as Johann Strauss and Alexander Girardi entertained an illustrious crowd. From 1907 the Villa Seilern was the summer residence of Archduke Friedrich and his family, and heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand also stayed there. In 1909, shortly before her death, Countess von Seilern sold the villa to a Vienna-based Mr Landau, and the owners subsequently changed several times: in 1919 the Viennese pig wholesaler Wotraubek, in 1923 the industrialist Oskar Inwald-Waldtreu, who gave the villa to his son-in-law Viktor Geza in 1925 bequeathed by Erös de Bethlenfalva .

In 1951 the Upper Austria. Teacher Sickness and Accident Welfare (LKUF) took over the building and converted it into a spa home for the teaching staff , with spa guests staying in the villa and going to the surrounding thermal baths for treatments. From September 2006 to April 2008, architect Georg Schleicher added a spacious hotel and wellness area to the villa, with the Hillebrand group from Wals near Salzburg as general contractor building a total of 12,500 cubic meters of concrete and 900 tons of steel . The hotel was officially opened on May 1st.

description

location

The Villa Seilern is located at the western end of the Bad Ischl spa gardens.

Historic villa

The magnificent summer residence is designed strictly symmetrically. An outside staircase leads to the protruding, neo-baroque middle section. The large alliance coat of arms in the central axis above the second floor still reminds us of the builder Elisabeth Seilern, born Stürgkh , because from the perspective of the viewer it shows the coat of arms of the Seilern family on the left and that of the Stürgkh family with the two storks on the right. The size of the villa was necessary to accommodate a stately family and staff for one summer.

The hotel's restaurant and seminar rooms are now located in the old building.

New building

The new building includes the reception area of ​​the hotel and the room wing in the north, which is adapted to the terrain, the wellness area in the western rear area and the winter garden in the south. One of the challenges with the new building was not to optically push the listed historic old building into the background, which was achieved through several measures: The new parts of the building are kept lower than the historic villa. The three connecting corridors between the new and old buildings are glazed, as is the hotel lobby on the right and the winter garden on the left. The remaining facades are loosened up by metal rods and curved wooden slats and designed in subtle gray and brown colors. In addition, the new buildings and their interiors are deliberately designed asymmetrically in contrast to the old villa.

literature

Villa Seilern Vital Resort (ed.), Angelika Kirste (text): Villa Seilern Vital Resort. Bad Ischl 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nina Höllinger: The Causa Löhner. The restitution of "aryanized" properties in Bad Ischl. Media booklet for DVD 12491 . Ed .: Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture. 2011, p. 9 ( bmbwf.gv.at [PDF; accessed on February 4, 2020] 10 pages).

Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 41.4 ″  N , 13 ° 37 ′ 1.6 ″  E