On August 9, the groundbreaking ceremony for the hotel project “Grand Elisabeth” took place. The new city hotel will contain 132 rooms and is projected at 37.5 million euros. It is scheduled to open in early 2025.
“The Salzkammergut is one of the flagships of tourism in Upper Austria. The new hotel ‘Grand Elisabeth’ brings important bed capacities and thus additional tourism impulses not only for Bad Ischl, but for the entire region. All the more gratifying that the concrete implementation of this lighthouse project is now starting”, represents economic and tourismProvincial Councillor Markus Achleitner on the occasion of today’s groundbreaking ceremony in Bad Ischl. “Investments in the tourism industry have a high multiplier effect on jobs, income and value creation due to their close links with the regional economy – both during construction itself and then during ongoing operation. This is all the more important in these challenging times,” says Landesrat Achleitner, underlining the great importance of the 37-million-euro hotel project.
132 rooms expand tourist offer in the Salzkammergut from 2025 onwards
The future hotel “Grand Elisabeth” will include 132 rooms and suites. It is scheduled to open for business at the end of February 2025. “The new hotel will enrich the tourist offer not only in the ‘imperial city’ Bad Ischl, but beyond that in the entire Salzkammergut. It is designed to appeal to classic vacationers as well as create new offerings for convention tourism.” emphasizes Landesrat Achleitner. “The entire region will benefit from the year-round operation, for example, shuttles for ski tourists to Gosau and the Feuerkogel are also planned in winter,” emphasizes Landesrat Achleitner.
“We are pleased that Bad Ischl will get an additional, urgently needed hotel in February 2025.because thedemand for overnight accommodation in the upscale 4-star segment in Bad Ischl is great,” emphasized Mag. Herbert Ackerl on behalf of the investors from the owner company Bad Ischl HE GmbH on the occasion of today’s groundbreaking ceremony.
“As the Zauner family, we are immensely pleased with the groundbreaking of this so important project: For almost 30 years, tourism experts and representatives of the municipality have agreed that Bad Ischl urgently needs more beds. Now the foundation stone is being laid. We are trying to create a house with which we can identify in the long term and which will be managed with just as much style as we do in our existing Bad Ischl establishments”, underline Philipp and Josef Zauner from the confectionery Zauner Bad Ischl, also shareholders of the owner company Bad Ischl HE GmbH.
From September 2023, 132 rooms of the future 4-star hotel will be built, as well as the hotel infrastructure, i.e. restaurant, vinotheque, seminar rooms, wellness area with sauna and indoor pool, fitness room and underground parking. Designed as a convention and tourist hotel, the hotel will be open year-round and offer spacious standard rooms as well as upscale suites.
The location of the Grand Elisabeth, right next to the Congress and Theater House, is ideal for seminars, congresses and events and offers a perfect complement to the existing premises, which host operetta festivals, musical and theater productions, ballet and dance shows, as well as concerts by international stars of jazz and pop.
Bad Ischl was the summer residence of the Austrian emperor. The historic imperial villa naturally shapes the historical image of this city. Many historic villas and buildings make Bad Ischl a hotspot for historians and history lovers. Emperor Franz Josef and Empress Elisabeth (Sisi) have made Bad Ischl world famous, of course also through the Sissi movies. And the Empress Sisi, as the namesake of the Hotel Grand Elisabeth, embodied by the world star Romy Schneider, is encountered at every turn in this wonderful city.
Original carriage from the Sissi movies
By the way, the original carriage from the Sissi films by Ernst Marischka will decorate the entrance area after completion of the hotel. The 120-year-old vehicle was purchased at auction in 2020 by the Zauner family together with Herbert Ackerl and Josef Öhlinger. It was restored and returned to its original condition. After more than 400 hours of work, it will now be presented to the public for the first time on August 13 as the highlight of the carriage parade in Bad Ischl.
Hotel project “Grand Elisabeth” at a glance:
Start of construction: beginning of September 2023
Opening: end of February 2025
Facilities: 132 rooms and suites
Restaurant, lounge, vinotheque, seminar rooms, sauna, fitness, park, two underground garages (1st underground garage: 120 spaces inside the hotel, 30 spaces outside; 2nd underground garage at the Kongresshaus: 170 spaces inside and outside)
Investment: 37.5 million euros total investment cost
Photos: (c)Hörmandinger, (c)Land OÖ / Daniela Sternberger, (c)Hinterwirth
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