Hotel Blauensteiner, Historical hotel in Thunau am Kamp, Austria

Hotel Blauensteiner stands at Taborgasse 8 in Thunau am Kamp, a two-part building whose defining feature is a terrace annex added in the first half of the 1920s for Ignatz and Anna Hofer. A stairway has linked the hotel with the parallel Villengasse since it was built. Four of the six windows on the slaughterhouse side were walled up from the start.

The Hotel Šimunek, built in 1897/98, was Thunau's first hotel and housed summer-fresh guests from 1899, as the community's guest lists record. In 1901 it passed at forced auction to Marie Frischauf, wife of the notary and folklorist Eugen Frischauf. Around 1917 the Viennese café owners Ignatz and Anna Dworschak bought it and added the terrace annex in the first half of the 1920s. In 1935 it went to the stonemason Franz Blauensteiner, whose family ran it until 1992.

The name Blauensteiner comes from stonemason Franz Blauensteiner, who bought the hotel at a forced auction in 1935 and ran it as a pension and terrace café. The terrace addition of the early 1920s, built for Ignatz and Anna Dworschak, hosted breakfasts, five-o'clock tea, dances and sunbathing. The hotel's best-known guest was novelist Heimito von Doderer, who stayed a week in August 1956.

The building stands at Taborgasse 8 in the Thunau am Kamp district. A stairway, protected along with the building in 2023, links it to Villengasse, which runs parallel to Taborgasse, the Kamptalbahn line and the Kamp river. The hotel has been closed since 1992, so the structure can only be viewed from outside.

The writer Heimito von Doderer, a friend of the owners Franz and Eleonora Blauensteiner, spent a week in Gars in August 1956 with his second wife Maria Emma and stayed here. In the 1960s and 1970s the Burgtheater actress Johanna Borak was a regular guest, often with her mother Ludmilla.