In the 19th century, the house “Zum Heiligen Anton” and later “Zur Goldenen Ente” (registration 113/1846) stood here.[1]
Ms. Karoline Zipser's Home for Young Girls was completed in 1904 at what is the Lange Gasse No. 49 today. Alterations were made soon thereafter, converting it to the Pension Zipser with eleven single and two double rooms.
The Austrian writer Ödön von Horváth Ödön von Horváth lodged in the Pension Zipser a number of times between 1920 and 1931, which he also references in his book Tales from the Vienna Woods.[2]
Hedwig Austerer bought the Pension in 1967 and extended the 28 rooms at that time to a total of 53. Manfred Austerer took over his parents’ business in 1972. Manfred and his wife Elisabeth Austerer renovated and altered the building over the years. Their younger son Bernhard Austerer joined the family business in 1999. Ongoing extensions and modernisation finally transformed the Pension Zipser into today's Hotel Zipser.
Traugott Krischke: Horváths „Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald“. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1983, S.36
Jürg Amann: Zimmer zum Hof. Haymon Verlag, 2006, S.14
References
↑see volume "Die Josefstadt im Vormärz" der Topographie von Alt-Wien (Vienna library, Sign. A 154989) under registration no. 113/1846, which for 1970 corresponds to the “Lange Gasse 49”, by courtesy of the Vienna library at https://www.facebook.com/wienbibliothek/posts/388636447821031 in derstandard.at of 11 January 2005; called up on 13 April 2012
