Hotel Imperial

Vienna, Austria. Located on the Ringstrasse at Kärntner Ring, in the heart of Vienna’s Innere Stadt.

Hotel ImperialVienna, Austria

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138 rooms and suites (79 rooms and 59 suites) behind the façade of the former Palais Württemberg.
Café Imperial Wien, Restaurant OPUS and the Imperial Bar; home of the Imperial Torte, said to date from 1873.
A grand palace staircase, marble, hand-carved statues and crystal chandeliers.
Located on the Ringstrasse at Kärntner Ring, in the heart of Vienna’s Innere Stadt.

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

1863 – 1865
The Palais Württemberg is built for Duke Philipp of Württemberg to designs by Arnold Zenetti, with Heinrich Adam as master builder.
1872
Financier Horace Ritter von Landau buys the palace and has it converted into a hotel ahead of the Vienna World’s Fair.
28 April 1873
The Hotel Imperial is ceremonially opened.
Reign of Franz Joseph I
As an official guest house of the emperor, it welcomes Otto von Bismarck, William I, Christian IX of Denmark and Pedro II of Brazil.
1928
Two storeys are added to the building.
1938
After the Anschluss, co-owner Samuel Schallinger is forced to give up his shares; he is later deported and dies at Theresienstadt in 1942.
1945 – 1955
During the Allied occupation the building houses the Soviet High Commission for Austria.
1956 – 1958
Returned to the Republic of Austria, the hotel is renovated and resumes operations.
1988 – 1994
A further major renovation is carried out.
2016
Starwood sells the hotel to Al Habtoor Investment; it remains part of The Luxury Collection under a management agreement.