Austria Classic Hotel Wien

Austria Classic Hotel Wien
Location Praterstraße 72,
Vienna, Austria
Opening date 1838
Developer Josef Scheiflinger
Owner Reinhard Blumauer

Ines Pietsch (Manager)
Ingeborg Seitz (Director)
Rooms 81
Website www.classic-hotelwien.at

The Austria Classic Hotel Wien is a three-star hotel, located on Praterstraße in Vienna's second district, the Leopoldstadt. It is a member of the Austria Classic Hotels group and was named Hotel Nordbahn until a rebranding in January 2008.

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History

The building Zum schwarzen Tor on Praterstraße Nr.72 (named Jägerzeile until 1862) was completed in 1808. It originally served as residential house for a Peter Danhauser and only comprised two floors. In 1838, one year after Austria's first steam railway, the Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway (German: Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn, KFNB; Czech: Severní dráha císaře Ferdinanda, SDCF), had opened and the first station building of the k.k. Nordbahnhof (Vienna North Station) on Nordbahnstraße was inaugurated, the existing building was extended by one floor and established as Hotel Nordbahn,[1] as due to the increasing international traffic touristic accommodation needs increased accordingly.

From 1843 to 1849 further extensions and adaptations were undertaken by hotel owner Josef Scheiflinger. Since that time the hotel has remained a family property.

From 1944 to 1945, the building was partially destroyed in World War II and was under Soviet administration until 1955. After the Allied Occupation of Austria, the hotel management was restored to Kommerzialrat Felix Scheiflinger, who had succeeded his father Josef Scheiflinger in 1908. In 1961, the management came to Erika Blumauer, Felix Scheiflinger's daughter, who modernised the house and passes management to her son Reinhard Blumauer in 1973.

Prior to the inauguration of the new Wien Praterstern railway station (before Bahnhof Wien Nord, before Bahnhof Praterstern, originally k.k. Nordbahnhof) the Hotel Nordbahn undertook a rebranding in its 170th year of existence and was renamed Austria Classic Hotel Wien by the 1st of Jannuary 2008.[2] The latest change of management occurred in 2010 when Reinhard Blumauer passed management on to his daughter Ines Pietsch, who thereby "became one of the youngest hotel managers of Austria".[3]

Notable Guests

Notes

  1. ^ Wolfgang Czerny, Ingrid Kastel: Wien: II. bis IX. und XX. Bezirk. In: Dehio-Handbuch: Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs; hrsg. vom Institut für Österreichische Kunstforschung des Bundesdenkmalamtes: Band 2 für Wien. Wien: A.Schroll, 1993, S.36, ISBN 3703106808
  2. ^ http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20071106_OTS0160/aus-hotel-nordbahn-wird-austria-classic-hotel-wien-bild
  3. ^ http://www.hotelundtouristik.at/news/news/artikel/austria-classic-hotel-wien-unter-neuer-fuehrung.html
  4. ^ Posted by sdtom (2008-02-13). "Max Steiner " Film Music: The Neglected Art". Sdtom.wordpress.com. http://sdtom.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/max-steiner/. Retrieved 2010-11-27. 
  5. ^ Jonathan Bousfield, Rob Humphreys: The rough guide to Austria. Rough Guides, 2001, S.78, ISBN 185828709X
  6. ^ http://www.classic-hotelwien.at/en/geschichte.20.htm
  7. ^ Józef Buszko, Walter Leitsch: Österreich Polen: 1000 Jahre Beziehungen. Band 5 von Studia Austro-Polonica. Krakau: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 1996, S.523, ISBN 832330968X
  8. ^ Roman Taborski: Zur Tradition der kulturellen Beziehungen zwischen Polen und Wien. In: Mit Wort und Tat: deutsch-polnischer Kultur- und Wissenschaftsdialog in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Veröffentlichung zum 225. Jahrestag der Societas Jablonoviana 1774 - 1999 / Dietrich Scholze(Hg.), Kongress: Kolloquium. Jablonowskische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig; (Leipzig): 1999.11.12-13. Leipzig: Universitätsverl., 2001, S.186, ISBN 3935693001

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