Architectural Styles
Biedermeier
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1815-1848
- Simplicity and Functionality
- symmetry
- Large Windows
- subtle decorative elements
- pilasters
- cornices
- friezes
- natural materials such as wood and brick,
- warm color palette
- Black & timber contrasts in furniture
- Central Europe
- Austria
- Germany
- Austro-Hungarian empire
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Residential homes
- schools
- town halls
- apartments
Vienna
- Geymüllerschlössel
- Palais Kottulinsky
- Stadttempel Synagogue
- Residential Buildings in Innere Stadt
- Café Central
- Houses in the Alsergrund District
- Townhouses in Karlskirche
- Commandry of the Knights of Malta
- Palais Odescalchi
- Biedermeier townhouse / Bürgerhaus hotels
- Historic inns from the Vormärz period
- Spa town lodging in Biedermeier-era buildings
- Apartment hotels / serviced apartments in Biedermeier buildings
- Small “heritage pensions” (Pensionen)
- Civic / institutional conversions
- guesthouses
- Mercure Grand Biedermeier Wien Hotel — Vienna, Austria
- Bad Ischl & Bad Hall (Austria)
- Baden-Baden / Wiesbaden (Germany)
Adaptive Reuse –
- Hotel Graf Stadion — Vienna, Austria
- Boutique Stadthaus Hotels in Vienna’s Inner District – Hotel Sacher Wien
- Pension/guesthouses in Landstraße and Neubau quarters
- Townhouse / Pension in Prague – Josefov / Old Town & Bratislava Historic centre
- Heritage Serviced Apartments in Vienna and Salzburg
Landmarks
Original Accommodation
Adapted Visitor Accommodation