Make a gift voucher for a stay at one of the five PIXEL HOTEL locations that special present to someone who means a lot to you!
for example: Twin bed suites incl. breakfast (from € 128,-)
Bookings and/or taking delivery of the vouchers:
linz@pixelhotel.at or 0650/7437953
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Pixel with garden
Wimhölzlstraße 25
The Pixel im Garten is located right in the heart of Linz’s Franckviertel neighborhood. Here, a former working-class flat and a storefront have been merged to form a spacious hotel room. The retail space has been converted into a living room featuring a garden designed to provide privacy from inquisitive glances through the shop window. The authentic working-class architectural style has been preserved. The attached apartment is now the bedroom and bathroom, in which a sound & image installation by Janina Wegscheider and Martin Lasinger tells of how things used to be here in the days when the flat had no bath and the residents had to go to a nearby bathhouse to wash.
Wimhölzlstraße, the square on which Pixel mit Garten is located, is a popular meeting place for the inhabitants of Franckviertel. This was the site of a chicory coffee roasting plant and a horse hair spinning mill, and the quarter long considered Linz’s quintessential working-class neighborhood. The local borough hall is also on Wimhölzelplatz. The square’s park benches are quite inviting; in summer, locals like to sit in the patio garden of Gasthaus Union, a pub that’s been quenching locals’ thirst since the beginnings of this part of town.
The buildings on Wimhölzelstraße were built prior to World War I at a time when there was a great need for proletarian housing in Linz. In 1919, Mayor Josef Dametz launched an ambitious public housing construction project that was to built 1,200 small flats in Frankviertel, but the galloping inflation of the interwar period had a disastrous impact on these plans—from 1920 to 1929, a mere 160 of these apartments were ever completed. Compared to the other developments on the outskirts of town, the Wimhölzelstraße project constituted an architectural innovation, since its concept of high-density housing totally contradicted the prevailing "garden city" ideology characterized by a low-density layout with lots of green space in between. The gardens attached to the houses were designed to enable residents to grow some of their own produce. The garden full of green pepper, gooseberry, lettuce and spices that’s a part of the Pixel on Wimhölzelstraße is living testimony of this peripheral neighborhood’s past.
Environment
King-size bed, 2 bicycles, bathtube, WC, minibar, SAT-TV, free WLAN internet, hair-dryer, 2 canvas chairs, safe, non-smoker
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phone +43(0)650 743 79 53
linz@pixelhotel.at