SOCHA CÍSAŘOVNY ALŽBĚTY – SISI – V BAD ISCHLU.
Statue of Empress Elisabeth in the gazebo at the Rudolfshöhe Hotel – original location
Vyšlo v novinách Illustrirtes Wiener Extrablatt 15. Juli 1903 Nr. 192
The statue has an interesting history.
Its author is hotelier Leopold Petter, who owned a number of hotels in the spa town of Bad Ischl.
houses and hotels. He had no artistic training, had only seen the Empress once, yet he managed to
vytvořit tuto nádhernou sochu. Podle dobového tisku je socha z anglického cementu, což byl jakýsi
the predecessor of today's artificial stone.
The statue depicts the empress walking without a hat, holding an umbrella in her right hand, which she is leaning on.
He is leaning, holding a fan in his left hand.
The unveiling of the statue took place deliberately on July 14, 1908. On this day in 1898,
the empress for the last time in Bad Ischl before leaving for Geneva, where she was assassinated on September 10, 1898
assassination, which resulted in her death.
The original location of the statue was in the garden gazebo at the Rudolfshöhe Hotel, the postcard shows
left.
Hotelier Leopold Petter, who came to Bad Ischl to work as a waiter at the age of thirteen,
Through his diligence, effort and thrift, he managed to become independent and become a prominent hotelier and also worked in
to the Bad Ischl council. In 1914 he already owned 12 villas and two hotels. He died in 1917. His
the property was sold at a foreclosure auction in 1929, during which he probably acquired the statue
the empress's director, the Bad Ischer Kurorchester Andre Hummer, then owner of the villa on
Lärchenwaldstrasse 16. A statue of the empress still stands in front of this house today.
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