The Hotel Graf Stadion is a historic three-star hotel, located on Buchfeldgasse 5 in Vienna's eighth district Josefstadt. The hotel was established in 1897 and named after the

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Johann Philipp von Stadion Johann Philipp Carl Joseph Stadion, Count von Warthausen (18 June 1763 in Mainz – 15 May 1824, Baden) was a statesman, foreign minister, and diplomat who served the Habsburg empire during the Napoleonic Wars. He was also founder of Austria's cent ...

. The building is a protected historic landmark listed on the Austrian cultural property list.Hotel Graf Stadion - History of the hotel in Vienna's Josefstadt
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History

The house on Buchfeldgasse Nr. 5 was built in 1825 by the Viennese

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as a

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in the architectural style of the Biedermeier era, when, due to the upswing of the urban middle-class

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during the

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, a boom in civic building activity ensued and residential development became the prime realm of investment. The tenement building on Buchfeldgasse Nr. 17 (completed by Ignaz Göll in 1828) and the

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on Buchfeldgasse Nr. 4 (1827) were penned by Alois Hildwein as well. All three buildings are protected historic landmarks of Vienna's city centre.

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Architektenlexikon Wien 1770-1945: Alois Hildwein
(Retrieved 2 July 2012)Wolfgang Czerny, Ingrid Kastel: Dehio Wien Vorstädte: II. bis IX. und XX. Bezirk. In: Dehio Handbuch: Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs; hrsg. vom Institut für Österreichische Kunstforschung des Bundesdenkmalamtes: Band 2 für Wien. Vienna: A.Schroll, 1993, p.346-347, According to historical documents, the former tenement building was established as a hotel in 1897. It was named in honour of the Austrian statesman, diplomat, minister of foreign and domestic affairs

. With only two gaps, from July 1945 to December 1948 during the four-power occupation of Vienna, and during a renovation in 2014, the hotel was in operation continuously since its foundation. The building was modernized in 1984 and completely renovated in 1999. Between 1999 and 2014 it was managed by Milan Oborny. The house was regarded as "one of the few genuine Biedermeier-style hotels left in Vienna".Dardis McNamee, Maggie Childs:

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Austria. John Wiley & Sons, 2011, p.121, As of September 2014, the hotel has reopened under new management after a full renovation. Hotel Graf Stadion 1897

Gallery

File:Wien_08_Hotel_Graf_Stadion_01.jpg, The hotel on Buchfeldgasse 5 File:Wien_08_Hotel_Graf_Stadion_02.jpg, The hotel's front gate File:Wien_08_Hotel_Graf_Stadion_03.jpg, Historic sign at the entrance

Notes

External links

Hotel Graf Stadion - Official Website
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