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CERCLE DIPLOMATIQUE - issue 02/2023

CD is an independent and impartial magazine and is the medium of communication between foreign representatives of international and UN-organisations based in Vienna and the Austrian political classes, business, culture and tourism. CD features up-to-date information about and for the diplomatic corps, international organisations, society, politics, business, tourism, fashion and culture. Furthermore CD introduces the new ambassadors in Austria and informs about designations, awards and top-events. Interviews with leading personalities, country reports from all over the world and the presentation of Austria as a host country complement the wide range oft he magazine.

CD is an independent and impartial magazine and is the medium of communication between foreign representatives of international and UN-organisations based in Vienna and the Austrian political classes, business, culture and tourism. CD features up-to-date information about and for the diplomatic corps, international organisations, society, politics, business, tourism, fashion and culture. Furthermore CD introduces the new ambassadors in Austria and informs about designations, awards and top-events. Interviews with leading personalities, country reports from all over the world and the presentation of Austria as a host country complement the wide range oft he magazine.

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SAVOIR VIVRE ANNIVERSARY<br />

Ein Hoch auf 150 Jahre Palais Hansen Wien!<br />

Cheers to 150 years Palais Hansen Vienna!<br />

Text: Daniela Pötzl<br />

Das Hotel Palais Hansen Kempinski Wien feierte Jubiläum.<br />

The Hotel Palais Hansen Kempinski Vienna celebrated its anniversary.<br />

PHOTOS: KATHARINA SCHIFFL<br />

Im Jahr 1873 anlässlich der Wiener Weltausstellung<br />

von Theophil Hansen erbaut,<br />

zählt das denkmalgeschützte Palais<br />

Hansen am Schottenring zu den<br />

historistischen Prachtbauten der berühmten<br />

Wiener Ringstraße. Als „Stararchitekt“<br />

seiner Zeit prägte Theophil Hansen – gebürtiger<br />

Däne und Wahl-Wiener – wie kein anderer<br />

die Architektur der Donaumetropole.<br />

Auch wenn das Palais Hansen seinerzeit als<br />

Hotel gebaut wurde, dauerte es noch 140<br />

Jahre bis das ehrwürdige Gebäude seinen<br />

ursprünglichen Zweck erfüllte. Denn erst<br />

2013 wurde das mit größter Sorgfalt renovierte,<br />

denkmalgeschützte Palais, das zwischenzeitlich<br />

als Amtsgebäude der Stadt<br />

Wien genutzt wurde, durch Europas älteste<br />

Luxushotelkette Kempinski seiner Bestimmung<br />

zugeführt und feierlich als Palais<br />

Hansen Kempinski Wien eröffnet.<br />

„Tag der offenen Tür“<br />

Am 13. April 2<strong>02</strong>3 lud das Palais Hansen<br />

Kempinski zum “Tag der offenen Tür”.<br />

Gäste, Anrainer und Interessierte hatten<br />

die Möglichkeit, im Zuge von Hotelführungen<br />

das historische Palais besser kennenzulernen.<br />

„Der Abend war sehr stimmig, sehr harmonisch<br />

und wurde dem Anlass des Jubiläums<br />

des Hauses sehr gerecht“, erzählt General<br />

Manager Florian Wille. „Die anwesenden<br />

Gäste waren eine bunte Schar von Freunden,<br />

Begleitern, und teilweise auch Menschen,<br />

die die Revitalisierungsphase sehr intensiv<br />

begleitet hatten. Man spürte viel Herzblut,<br />

viel Emotion und jeder der da war, hatte eine<br />

emotionale Bindung zum Haus. Es kamen<br />

sogar Gäste aus den Bundesländern, wie<br />

dem Burgenland, Niederösterreich und sogar<br />

Salzburg.“<br />

Built in 1873 by Theophil Hansen on<br />

the occasion of the Vienna World‘s<br />

Fair, the listed Palais Hansen on<br />

Schottenring is one of the most magnificent<br />

historicist buildings on Vienna‘s famous<br />

Ringstrasse. As the „star architect“ of<br />

his time, Theophil Hansen – a native Dane<br />

and Viennese by choice – left his mark on<br />

the architecture of the Danube metropolis<br />

like no other. Even though Palais Hansen<br />

was built as a hotel at the time, it took another<br />

140 years for the venerable building to<br />

fulfil its original purpose. It was only in<br />

2013 that Europe‘s oldest luxury hotel<br />

chain, Kempinski, opened the Palais Hansen<br />

Kempinski Vienna, a listed building<br />

that had been renovated with the utmost<br />

care and had been used as an official building<br />

of the City of Vienna in the meantime.<br />

“Open Day“<br />

On 13 April 2<strong>02</strong>3, the Palais Hansen<br />

Kempinski invited to an “Open Day“. Guests,<br />

neighbours and interested parties had the<br />

opportunity to get to know the historic Palais<br />

better during hotel tours.<br />

“The evening was very coherent, very harmonious<br />

and did great justice to the occasion<br />

of the hotel‘s anniversary,“ says General<br />

Manager Florian Wille. “The present guests<br />

were a colourful crowd of friends, companions,<br />

and partly also people who had accompanied<br />

the revitalisation phase very intensively.<br />

You could feel a lot of heart and<br />

soul, a lot of emotion, and everyone who was<br />

there had an emotional connection to the<br />

house. There were even guests from the provinces,<br />

like Burgenland, Lower Austria and<br />

even Salzburg.“<br />

General Manager Florian Wille<br />

mit Theophil Hansen aus Pappe.<br />

General Manager Florian Wille<br />

with Theophil Hansen in cardboard.<br />

112 Cercle Diplomatique 2/2<strong>02</strong>3<br />

Das Haus wurde 1873 von Theophil<br />

Hansen erbaut und wurde erst<br />

2013 zum Hotel.<br />

The house was built in 1873 by<br />

Theophil Hansen and only became a<br />

hotel in 2013.<br />

INFO:<br />

kempinski.com<br />

Die Wiener Chormädchen begleiteten<br />

den Abend musikalisch.<br />

The Vienna Choir Girls provided<br />

musical accompaniment for the<br />

evening.

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