The Palais Hansen (name since about 2000) is a style of Neo-Renaissance built from 1869 to 1873 building in the first Viennese district , Inner City , Schottenring 20-26 / Gonzagagasse / Zelinkagasse / Neutorgasse. Designed by Theophil Hansen as a hotel and used as an office building for 56 years from 1941, it is a listed buildingand has housed a luxury Kempinski hotel since 2013 .
The building was built during the construction of the Vienna Ringstrasse and served as a prestigious hotel during the 1873 Vienna World Fair . Two years later, the (kk) Police Directorate Vienna was opened at Schottenring 11 , which was housed here until 1945. (Since 1974, the now State Police Directorate Vienna on Schottenring 7-9 can be found.) 1877 two blocks west of the building, the new House of the Vienna Stock Exchange , also designed by Hansen, opened and used until 1998 as such.
The style of the building is called Neo-Renaissance and is part of Viennese historicism. The building complex occupying a whole block shows the style corresponding restraint in the use of plastic and painted art objects.
After the World's Fair, the hotel was rebuilt into a residential building by the owner, the Porr , and served as the official building from 1941. It housed after 1945 the offices of the city councils responsible for Social Affairs and Health , the Vienna Hospital Association (KAV, part of the City Council ), the Health Department ( MA 15 ) of the City of Vienna and other relevant departments.
In 1997, the city council of Vienna sold the building to a consortium of companies, which wanted to refurbish it and restore it to its original use. Palais Hansen Immobilienentwicklung GmbH has been the owner since 2012, to which the Vienna Insurance Group holds 56.5%, the real estate subsidiary of Porr , Strauss & Partner Development (then Porr Solutions) 33.6% and the Warimpex Group 9.9%. involved.
Architectural detail: Palais Hansen
The Kempinski hotel chain leased the building and opened a five-star hotel in March 2013 .
The Palais Hansen has a gross floor area of approximately 22,000 m² on a floor area of around 4850 m². It has three courtyards. On the fourth floor and in the attic are now 17 condominiums sellable penthouse residences with areas of 130 to 340 m², including four in conjunction with the distinctive domes of the center of the block. In the floors below, a total of 152 hotel rooms and suites, two restaurants, a coffee house, a fitness and spa area with swimming pool, six meeting and conference rooms for up to 280 people as well as an underground car park have been built. For example, the Austrian investment banker Florian Koschat lives in the hotel.
Architect for the transformation was the Viennese Boris Podrecca .