Grand Hotel, Vienna

Andrea King

The Grand Hotel Wien is a five -star hotel in Vienna on the Ringstrasse. It is located at Kärntner Ring 9 in the 1st district of Vienna. The operator Grand Hotel GmbH is a 100% subsidiary of the First Vienna Hotel AG which is owned by Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber since 2002.

History

Anton Schneider (1820-1872) presented in 1863 at the very same place ( and thus in the first section of the resulting Ringstrasse ), designed by architect Carl Tietz ( 1831-1874 ), the Maison meublée finished, the so-called Schneiderian house, a palace -like 56 6 m long and 23.5 m deep building, in which, among other things Archduke Wilhelm ( 1827-1894 ) moved into the apartment.

Schneider was the owner of adjoining property, which he sold to a public company, which is also designed by Carl Tietz, the building was equipped with about 300 rooms and 200 bathrooms. On 10 May 1870, the opening time of Director Anton Schneider was.

In 1911, the neighboring buildings are Kärntner Ring bought 11 and 13 and incorporated into the hotel business. After the Second World War, the Russian occupation troops took until 1955 the building, which was then renovated. The reopening was 1957. 1958 the building was purchased by the Austrian Government to the International Atomic Energy Agency. After 1979, the organization moved, bought in 1989, the Japanese airline and hotel chain All Nippon Airways ( ANA) the building. The ANA converted it, at which only the main façade remains. The reopening as "ANA Grand Hotel " after the conversion took place in 1994.

ANA sold after a few years the hotel to the consortium JJW Hotels & Resorts, after which the hotel " Grand Hotel " was renamed.

Bar pianist

• Peter Galsai
• Stanislav Jenis