Gerlinde, Andreas, Sara and Andi Reichl are already the third generation to cherish and cultivate Austrian hospitality and make their guests’ stay as pleasant and comfortable as possible.

Our hotel has been located in the Elisabethvorstadt district since 1898. This part of the city was planned after the railroad station was built around 1860. Before that, this area was called “Froschheim”. The district was only renamed after Empress Elisabeth’s visit in 1898.

Our family has been running this house since then. First as the inn “Zum Stauffen”, later as the three-star Hotel Hohenstauffen.

More information about the history of the Hotel Hohenstauffen in Salzburg …

Froschheim was not a village, but a suburb. Around 1830 it comprised 20 farms. With a few exceptions, the agricultural land bordered on the properties located on Froschheimer Hauptstraße – today Elisabethstraße. The settlement thus formed a closed complex along the important transport link between the town and the villages of Bergheim and Oberndorf bei Salzburg to the north.
The local councillor Silvester Oberberger (there is still an inscription with his name on the house opposite our Hotel Hohenstauffen) rendered outstanding services to the planned development of the area after the main railway station was built. Between 1880 and 1900, Stauffenstraße, the street with a view of the Hochstaufen mountain, was the first street facing the Salzach to be built up with villas. If you walk down Stauffenstrasse from Elisabethstrasse to the Salzach today, you can still admire many old villas with large gardens.

Our area was renamed “Elisabeth Vorstadt” in 1901, on the occasion of Empress Elisabeth’s visit in 1898. A marble bust of Empress Sissi can be seen in front of the station.

A luxury hotel was opened in front of the station, with a driveway from the main station and a very large green area stretching from today’s Kaiser-Schützen-Str. to St. Julienstraße. Unfortunately, the hotel was so badly damaged by a bomb in April 1945 that it could not be rebuilt. The site is now occupied by a hotel in the style of the 1950s, as well as a large residential complex for railroad and postal workers.

The history of our hotel begins around 1901, when the grandfather bought this house and ran an inn. At that time it was run as an inn “zum Stauffen” with a large beer garden. An ideal spot between the second and third wayside shrine of the mystery pillars on the way to the Maria Plain pilgrimage church.

We are happy to tell you about the special, sometimes very fateful history of our family when you stay with us.

In the 50s and 60s of the 20th century, renovations and extensions began. Today our hotel has 31 rooms instead of 14. Each of these rooms is furnished differently with high-quality wooden furniture, four-poster beds and/or wallpaper. You will not find generic rooms with standard off-the-peg furniture in our hotel.

We have also used the “Corona year” to freshen up all the rooms, make minor and major repairs and, of course, we have also tried to take to heart all the criticisms that you, dear guests, have sent us via various channels!

Here you can see pictures from days gone by