Hotel Sacher - Vienna

The Hotel Sacher is located on Philharmonikerstraße in Vienna, Austria.  It was opened in 1876 by restaurateur Edouard Sacher, whose father, Franz Sacher, created the original Sacher-torte dessert in 1832.  The building sits on a site formerly occupied by both the Theater am Karntnertor, which was demolished in 1870, and the home in which Antonio Vivaldi died in 1741. In 1880 Edouard married Anna Maria Fuchs, whose management skills turned the hotel into a prized destination in Vienna, especially among the aristocratic elite.  After Sacher died in 1892, Anna became the managing director, but by the years following WW I she had mismanaged the hotel into bankruptcy.  She died here in her room in 1930.  In 1934 the Gürtler family bought the property and has managed it ever since, beginning the first of several renovations that same year.  Through the years the hotel has seen many notable guests, including King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, who dallied together here before his abdication and their marriage, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who held a press conference here in 1969 on their new concept of Bagism, and Graham Greene, who worked here on his screenplay for Carol Reed's 1949 film The Third Man, which was set in post-war Vienna and includes the hotel in some exteriors.  Other guests have included many of the music world's great performers, such as Placido Domingo, Leonard Bernstein, Jose Carreras and Herbert von Karajan, who all made use of the hotel's close proximity to the Vienna Opera House.  Today the Sacher is a notable destination for dessert fans, who still come to the hotel for their world famous Sacher-torte.                                                                

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