Chronicle Hotel Regina

In the early 90s, Georg Kremslehner came to Vienna and started working as a waiter in the beer hall “Alt-Pilzenetzer Bierhalle”. There he met Christine who worked there as chef and who became his wife later. Together they leased the “Alt-Pilsenetzer Bierhalle” and married the same year.

Georg Kremslehner got the Hotel concession in 1907, bought the building and adapted it floor by floor into a Hotel. Step by step he transformed the building complex into an elegant City Hotel, maintaining the beer hall until the twenties.

After Georg Kremslehner’s death in the thirties, his youngest son Rudolf took over the management of the Kremslehner Hotels. After the Second Word War the Hotel was completely renovated and enlarged by the house close-by.

Dr. Peter Kremslehner took over the management of all three Hotels in 1976.

Chronicle Hotel Royal

The foundation wall of the Hotel Royal derives from the 1^st Millennium. In 1379, the house was bought by Oswald Chunter for 80 pounds. Some time about 1566 the Hotel appeared in the chronicle as a pilgrim hostel under the name “Gasthof zum Roten Apfel” and was honored by the Emperor Franz Josef I in 1709 with the emperor’s letter and the official seal. The original certificate was conserved until today.

In 1784, Vienna’s first menu, the “Kuchlzettel”, was made and proposed to the guests by the innkeeper in former time, Josef Merina. The Singing School “Society for Lover of Music” was inaugurated on October 7^th, 1817 by  Antonio Salieri, in the same house. S.A. Steiner operated there a store of music, which was visited several times a week by Ludwig van Beethoven.

After the collapse of the neighbour’s house in 1882, the architect A. Wilemann rebuilt the house as a Hotel “Zum goldenen Becher”, which was acquired by the Kremslehner Family in 1931 and which is now already in 4^th generation in Family holding.

During the Second World War, the Hotel burn down, as well as St. Stephan’s Cathedral, till its foundation walls. The Hotel was re-erected between 1955 and 1959 and reopened on May 20^th, 1960.

Chronicle Graben Hotel

At the end of 18^th century the House was known under the name “Einkehrgasthof zum Goldenen Jägerhorn”. The convenient position and the set carriage station to Hietzing, next to the entrance guaranteed regular walk-in costumers. From the annals we know that daily dozens of needy were fed for free and that after a flood disaster several hundred of homeless were accommodated.

In the Biedermeier period, the “Goldene Jägerhorn” was a kind of agency for national singers, who met in the evening. Among them a court council of the court chamber archive, better known as the poet Franz Grillparzer.

In 1918 the Graben Hotel was established by the architect Stephan to today’s appearance. From 1913 to 1919 the hotel was a popular meeting point of men of letters like Peter Altenberg, Franz Kafka and Max Brod.

Peter Altenberg, a bachelor his whole life, had up to his death a permanent room. On many of his letters only the new name of the “Goldenen Jägerhorn” with the address: “Vienna I, Graben Hotel” was written. As the Kremslehner Family took over the management of the Hotel in 1927, one of the meeting rooms was renamed Café-Restaurant Altenberg, to honour this men of letter.