Villa Kremenezky, Historic villa in Altaussee, Austria
Villa Kremenezky is a country-house villa built around 1874 in the Ausseer style, standing at the upper end of a roughly 10,000 m² park in the Fischerndorf district of Altaussee. The currently uninhabited building at Fischerndorf 52 sits on a south-facing slope at the foot of the Loser, about 350 metres from Altausseer Lake. It was remodelled in 1936 by architect Otto Prutscher.
Péter Búsbach, a Hungarian lawyer and writer, bought the Donisen-Ackerl plot on 29 August 1873 and built the villa shortly after. In 1936 the industrialist Theodor Kremenezky, son of Johann Kremenezky, bought the property and commissioned Otto Prutscher to remodel it. The Nazis seized it in 1938; after the war it was restituted to Kremenezky on 9 July 1947.
Locals still call it the Andrian-Villa after the writer and diplomat Leopold Andrian, who owned it from 1922; the Andrian-Werburg-Promenade in Altaussee is named after his family. Erika Kremenezky, known in the village as the "Grande Dame", spent only summers here and hosted guests such as Jacques Chirac.
The villa stands at Fischerndorf 52, at the upper end of a roughly 10,000 m² park in the centre of Altaussee, about 350 metres from the Altausseer See. It is uninhabited and not heritage-protected, so visitors see it from outside; the south-facing slope at the foot of the Loser makes it visible from the valley.
Erika Varay, known locally as the "Grande Dame", inherited the villa from her uncle Theodor Kremenezky in 1973 and spent only the summers there, hosting international guests such as Jacques Chirac, then mayor of Paris and later French president.
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