History
The history of Brioni Hotel goes back to 1910 when restaurateur Karel Schindler applied for hotel license at the Municipal Office of Moravian Ostrava. Following some objections and complications, Schindler was finally warranted the license and initiated the building constructions at Stodolni Street in 1911, which was to be finished year later. After board inspection, the building construction was declared thorough and sightly “decorating the town as a neat accessory” which resulted in Schindler being granted the license, which enabled him to run the hotel. The hotel was ceremonially opened the same year to the accompaniment of miners’ brass band conducted by bandmaster Mazák. During those years, Stodolní Street had a bad reputation as a place where prostitutes gathered and harassed the passers-by and for this reason Schindler’s decision to have a hotel in this area was considered daring and provocative. At that time, Brioni was the most modern hotel in the region of Moravian Ostrava. With sixty stylishly furnished rooms, one night cost two to three crowns depending on how luxurious the room equipment was. There was electricity, lift, telephone and central heating, the novelty was electronic wake up calls. Schindler had a summer terrace built in the courtyard of the hotel where Ostrava aristocracy gathered on Sunday afternoons. Schindler was very fond of music, and so music played at numerous occasions and accompanied various events, furthermore, the miner brass bands competition also took place on the premises of the hotel.
During the 1930s, beers from Pilsen and České Budějovice were draught in the hotel restaurant. The hotel also offered a wide selection of Italian wines, especially from Brioni areas, which attracted many wine epicures and experts who came to Brioni Hotel from far away. Until 1912, before opening the hotel, Karel Schindler ran a tavern on Stodolní Street, where meals typical for Prague and Vienna were served together with Brioni wines. Thanks to the popularity of Brioni wines, the hotel was given the name Brioni, Brioni wine was also the reason why Italians gathered regularly on the hotel premises. This explains why the hotel became nicknamed “The Italian House” (at that time there were also German and Polish Houses in Ostrava). During World War II., the hotel was called Schindler, after the war it was given the name Odra and during socialism, the hotel’s fame faded. After the revolution in 1989, the hotel regains its original name – Hotel Brioni.
For hotel guests
HOTEL SAUNA
Hotel guests can use hotel sauna for fee.
WiFi
Free high-speed internet access Wi-Fi
