Elise Überbacher-Minatti 1921
"Travelling companions" - a special exhibition of the Touriseum
17/05/2023
Travelling companions
Train station Toblach/Dobbiaco
01.06.-31.12.2023
Meet Elise Überbacher-Minatti, who looks back on her time as one of Tyrol's most famous hoteliers.
“Good day to you! Are you waiting for someone too? I am waiting for my guests. In times like these it’s important to take personal care of those few who can still afford to stay at my establishment... May I ask you something? What do you see when you look at my hotel over there? Just some old walls? Or the famous Grand Hotel, as it once was? For me it is so much more than that... Would you like to know how it all began?”
Continue here (audio):
Elise Überbacher-Minatti, née Kopf (1848–1926)
- from 1878 ran the Südbahnhotel in Toblach and, from 1883, the Cur-Etablissement Pensions-Hôtel Bellevue in the Bozen suburb of Gries
- after her death in 1926, her son Max continued to run the Grand Hotel Toblach, but was obliged to sell it at auction in 1934.
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