Palais Hansen

The Palais Hansen is located on the Ringstraße, which is sourrounding the old historic town of Vienna.

Palais Hansen was built in 1873 (1869 -1873) by the famous architect Theophil Edvard Hansen. It was planned and used as a representative hotel for the Vienna World´s Fair 1873 in a Neorenissance style (part of Vienna Historismus). After the Vienna World´s Fair the hotel was converted to an appartment building.

From 1941 on the complex was used as office building by the public health department of the city of Vienna and the department of the Vienna hospital association.

In 1997 the city of Vienna sold the complex to a consortium of companies.

Until 2013 is was reconstructed and converted to a luxury five star hotel. In March 2013 the hotel was reopend as Palais Hansen Kempinski with 152 elegant rooms and suites, two restaurants and Conference space up to 280 participants. Since March 2024 Palais Hansen is a luxury hotel of the Anantara group.

In the fourth floor and the roof floor of the complex there are now 17 private Penthouse residences.

Responsable for the renovation and transfiguration was the famous Viennese architect Boris Podrecca.

The Palais Hansen is a listed building (monumental protection)