It is a member of the Austria Classic Hotels group and was named 'Hotel Nordbahn' until a rebranding in January 2008.

It originally served as residential house for a Peter Danhauser and only comprised two floors.

In 1838, one year after Austria's first steam railway, the Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway (German: Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn, KFNB; Czech: Severní dráha císaře Ferdinanda, SDCF), had opened and the first station building of the Imperial and Royal North railway station on Nordbahnstraße was inaugurated.

The existing building was extended by one floor, and established as 'Hotel Nordbahn',[1] because of tourist accommodation needs through increased international traffic.

From 1843 to 1849 further extensions and adaptations were undertaken by hotel owner Josef Scheiflinger.