At our Lower Austria Visit to Baden near Vienna in Vienna woods Austria on the occasion of the Baden Summer Festival "Bathing in white“We stayed in the Herzoghof Hotel Baden *. (advertisement) As tour guide I have seen many hotels in many countries around the world. That is why I particularly appreciate hotels that have a special character. This is the oldest hotel in the city. We really liked the hotel with its magnificent Art Nouveau furnishings. We feel a little like we have been transported back to the times when the fine ladies of society still strolled through Baden near Vienna and the spa park in elegant, long skirts and with parasols. Empress Elisabeth liked to wander from Vienna to Baden.
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This may also have been because during our stay day visitors, hotel guests and locals dressed up and strolled through the city in elegant white clothing. In the city's cafes we met some ladies who would have fit right in during the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. With their airy dresses and wavy hair, they kept giving their styled poodles a piece of their cake. Only the group of Japanese women dressed in white who walked past us gesticulating loudly as we got out of the car in front of the hotel took us back to the 21st century. They didn't fit right into the image of the Viennese haute volée that I imagined in Baden at the end of the 19th century.
A splendid Art Nouveau building: the Herzoghof Hotel Baden near Vienna, Austria
The Herzoghof Hotel Baden has been around for a long time: already at the beginning of the 19. In the 19th century, the building, whose history goes back to 1002, was used as a hotel. Probably the most famous regular guest of the hotel was Franz Grillparzer, who regularly stayed at the Herzoghof Hotel Baden between 1867 and 1871. At that time the house did not look like it did today. 1908 / 09 the splendid Art Nouveau palace was built according to the plans of the architect W. Luksch. At that time it was the most modern spa hotel of its time, with prestigious lounges, 125 living rooms and four corner salons. The Hotel Herzoghof was Austria's first hotel, in which each room had its own telephone, and where the staff were no longer called by bell, but were requested by light signal.
The ultimate luxury at that time was that every room had hot and cold water. There were also individual sulphur baths on every floor, which were fed from the thermal springs in Baden. These have now disappeared. And the suite in which we are staying has just been restored. With a wellness bath, a separate toilet, a large living room with a balcony, we have a beautiful view of the spa gardens and the Baden Casino right outside the front door. The spacious bedroom retains the original Art Nouveau windows, which give it an elegant touch. We feel very comfortable in Suite 101 on the first floor of the hotel. We would have just liked air conditioning in summer temperatures of around 40 degrees. But that is rather rare in our latitudes.
Breakfast in the Weilburg Hall in the Hotel Herzoghof in Baden near Vienna
We have breakfast in the magnificent Weilburg Hall. When I enter, my breath catches. One of the long walls of the room is decorated with an almost 80 square meter large glass painting by Otto Barth, which reminds me a lot of the wonderful stained glass windows by Tiffany in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. However, Barth's window shows the view from Baden towards the west into the Helenental with the two ruins of Rauheneck and Rauhenstein and the Weilburg. A fantastic place to start your day!
The breakfast buffet served with it goes perfectly with this. There is something for every taste: a good selection of fish, sausage, cheese and spreads, fruit - fresh and preserved -, various types of cereal, boiled eggs, scrambled eggs with bacon or sausages, freshly baked cakes and rolls, croissants and more. Nobody goes hungry here!
That has to be in your This must be in your suitcase for your visit to Baden near Vienna
- Wear comfortable shoes, because you will be travelling around Baden mainly on foot. The old town is also a pedestrian zone.
- If you are planning an elegant evening, then you should also comfortable pumps .
- However, for a visit to the casino, sandals.
- A backpackwhere you can put all the utensils for a day
Stylish ambience
Guests at the Herzoghof Hotel Baden clearly enjoy the stylish ambience of the hotel. It is quiet in this four-star hotel. Although it is just a few steps away from Casino Baden, we do not find a "party crowd" here that throws itself into the wild life. The guests who stay at the hotel during our stay are mostly couples or single guests who appreciate the quiet environment in the hotel. "Many of our guests come back again and again to visit the bathing facilities at the thermal springs," explains Ines Dombois, the hotel's tenant. "But we also offer casino dinner packages," she adds.
The best thing about the Herzoghof Hotel Baden is the helpfulness and unobtrusive friendliness of the staff, which gives us a feeling of being welcome. We quickly feel at home in the Hotel Herzoghof. And it seems that we are not the only ones who feel this way, because the hotel in the spa gardens of Baden has many regular guests who have been coming back for years. Well deserved, we think!
Convenient for hikes that you can take from the Herzoghof Hotel Baden
- We recommend hiking boots for the hike. There are many hiking trails near Baden near Vienna. What do you think, for example, of the Pleasure mile near Gumpoldskirchen or the Via Sacra at Heiligenkreuz?
- It is also practical for on the go backpackin which you drink, snack, your picnic accessories, jacket as well as small items.
- You can book an lunch box with board and other practical things for hiking can be found here, for example.
- Find suitable walking shoes for wide feet here
- Be sure to check our hiking checklistwhether you have packed everything you need for a hike
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Source: On-site research. We would therefore like to thank Casino Baden, Casino-Urlaub and Hotel Herzoghof for the invitation and support on this trip. However, our opinion remains our own.
Text: © Copyright Monika Fuchs and TravelWorldOnline
Photos: © Copyright Monika Fuchs and TravelWorldOnline
