OLD VIENNESE INN

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 6

OLD VIENNESE INN

Building Still Used After 550 Years I VIENNA The old Griechenbeisel— Greek inn so-called because it & near the Greek Orthodox ChurdJ I and many Greek merchants made it their headquarters—is still usd as a restaurant. And it still echoel nightly to the old Vienna follte songs and the music of accordidtf and violins. It was already an inn in 1447. when it Was sold for 5501 b & pfennings. The building, more less in its original form, was built about 1400. Incorporated in " then, and still inhabited to day, is a watch-tower from th® 12th century, said to be the old®® 4 still inhabited dwelling in Vienna Most of the old visitors’ boo» were destroyed during World WaJ 11, but from old newspapers and . books it has been learned that , Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner. Johann Strauss, Brahms, Wald' mueller, Grillparzer, Schwind and Nestroy were among the many guests who visited it. Mark Twain recorded some happy hours spent there during his visit to ViennaIn more recent times. Fran* Lehar. Emil Jannings and Lott® Medelsky have been among visitors. Dr. Karl Renner, later President of Austria, spent a happy hour here with , political friends. Under the Nazi occupation, Hermann Goering. • connoisseur of food and dnnK. conferred here with the Vienna Burgermeister.