Hotel Bristol Salzburg

Salzburg, Austria. Located on Makartplatz, on the right bank of the Salzach, within the UNESCO-listed historic centre of Salzburg.

Hotel Bristol SalzburgSalzburg, Austria

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Practical information

The Polo Lounge restaurant serves Austrian and international cuisine; cocktails and wine at the Sketch Bar & Lounge.
Hans Makart’s monumental painting Nero at the Burning of Rome (1865) adorns the foyer.
Rooms, suites and long-stay apartments, a fitness room and spaces for meetings and weddings.
Located on Makartplatz, on the right bank of the Salzach, within the UNESCO-listed historic centre of Salzburg.

10 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.

c. 1619
Prince-Archbishop Paris Lodron has a town palace for noblemen built on the site.
1886
Banker Karl Leitner buys the plot and builds a peat-fired power station to supply selected Salzburg businesses.
13 October 1887
The plant goes into service as the first power station in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
1894
The power station becomes the Electrizitäts-Hotel, named for its electric lighting.
1907
The hotel, then owned by the city of Salzburg, is renamed Hotel Bristol.
26 April 1908
Sigmund Freud’s Vienna Psychoanalytic Society holds its first international meeting at the hotel.
1914 – 1915
Hotelier and writer Alois Grasmayr acquires the hotel.
8 January 1919
The artists’ association Der Wassermann is founded at the hotel.
1930s
The Hübner family takes over; four generations later it remains one of Salzburg’s few family-run private hotels.
Famous guests
Guests have included Emperor Franz Joseph I, Sigmund Freud, Maria von Trapp, Riccardo Muti and Ringo Starr.