Hotel Metropole, Vienna

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Hotel Metropole was a hotel in Vienna, Austria that was constructed in 1871–73. It was destroyed during World War II after serving as the Vienna headquarters of the Gestapo from 1938. The address was Morzinplatz, in the I. District Innere Stadt.

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Hotel Metropole
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Old photograph of the Hotel Metropole in the back
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General information
LocationMorzinplatz,
Vienna, Austria
Opening1873
Closed1938 (ceased to be hotel)
ca1940 (destroyed by bombing)
Design and construction
Architect(s)Carl Schumann (architect)
Ludwig Tischler
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Advertisement of the hotel
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Monument on Morzinplatz to the victims of Nazi terror