{"id":1251,"date":"2024-11-19T17:36:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T17:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-excelsior.wisto.cc\/?page_id=1251"},"modified":"2025-02-14T11:14:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T11:14:38","slug":"historie-en","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/villa-excelsior.at\/?page_id=1251&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Historie – EN"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Villa Excelsior was built from 1895-1897 as \u201cVilla Dr. Wassing\u201d by the famous cure-doctor Anton Wassing. In these times Sigmund Freud spent his summer vacations from 1916 \u2013 1923 in his \u201c\u2026favourite spa-resort, in middle of the beauty of the Alps\u201d.<\/p>

In 1938 the Straubinger family \u2013 who already owned the well-known Straubinger hotel next to the waterfall \u2013 took over the villa and changed the name into \u201cHaus Goldeck\u201d. From 1957 to 2000 the hotel was used as a cure-house for priests by the Prelate Simon Dietmann, who
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The vending to an apartment company failed in 2000 and so the hotel was closed until Christof Erharter bought the villa and renovated the building based on original plans from 1895 and reopened the hotel in the summer 2003.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Born in 1837, the architect decided to study architecture in Munich and Vienna after completing an apprenticeship as a carpenter. After completing his training and an internship with the master builder of Vienna Cathedral, Wessicken went to Mainz as master builder of the cathedral. One of his most famous buildings is undoubtedly the St. Andr\u00e4 Church in Salzburg’s Neustadt district. Wessicken received his first commission in Wildbad in 1876 from Josef M\u00fchlberger.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Wessicken’s largest clients in Wildbad were predominantly the Bad Gastein hoteliers and spa doctors, in particular the Straubinger family, who commissioned the adaptation building directly at the waterfall in 1884 (formerly Haus am Wasserfall or Krisch-Haus since 1911), in addition to the redesign of the main fa\u00e7ade and the conversion of the spa wing in 1887, Wessicken designed the post office building. The most important major building for the Straubinger family was the Hotel Austria, which houses the municipal offices and the Gastein Museum. The buildings of Dr. Anton Wassing (Villa Dr. Wassing, today Hotel Excelsior), the then spa physician Dr. Eduard Schider (Haus Schider) and Dr. Josef Weingerl (Lothringen-Quisisana), whose villas shared the characteristic \u201cWessicken tower\u201d, still exist today.<\/p>

The architect Josef Wessicken also designed the Elisabethhof (today’s Arcotel), the hunting lodge of Count Rudolf von Czernin in B\u00f6ckstein, the Hotel Wei\u00dfmayr (formerly Provench\u00e8re), the Villa Excelsior (formerly Haus Goldeck) and the Wandelbahn with the Kurkasino, which no longer exists today. Only a few buildings in Bad Gastein were not built together with Angelo Comini. These include the Villa M\u00fchlberger – his first commission in Bad Gastein . . .<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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History A mansion full of history The Villa Excelsior was built from 1895-1897 as \u201cVilla Dr. Wassing\u201d by the famous cure-doctor Anton Wassing. In these times Sigmund Freud spent his summer vacations from 1916 \u2013 1923 in his \u201c\u2026favourite spa-resort, in middle of the beauty of the Alps\u201d. In 1938 the Straubinger family \u2013 who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1251","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/villa-excelsior.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/villa-excelsior.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/villa-excelsior.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villa-excelsior.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villa-excelsior.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/villa-excelsior.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093,"href":"https:\/\/villa-excelsior.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1251\/revisions\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/villa-excelsior.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}