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Fotos: Hotel Drei Zinnen

Bis ins letzte Detail hinein ist der wuchtig elegante Stil des Architekten Clemens Holzmeister bis heute sichtbar. • The massive elegant style of the architect Clemens Holzmeister is still visible down to the last detail.

e Corbusier once called the Dolomites the "most
beautiful construction in the world"! In the course
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of the developing alpine tourism, the first hotel buil-
dings in the region were constructed at that time. They
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strian Südbahn, the extension of which was being pro-
moted then. Industrial magnates, artists and bohemi-
ans of the so-called Viennese Modernism travelled to
Semmering or the Puster Valley by train to recover from
their exhausting night life in Vienna. A little to the Vielfalt aus einem Guss.
south, in Sexten, Clemens Holzmeister built the Hotel
Drei Zinnen in 1929. Hans Watschinger was the mayor
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commissioning! By this time, Holzmeister had already ob bei individuellen Einzelstücken, Kleinserien oder fugenlos verarbeiteten Reihenanlagen.
built a key work: the crematorium on the cemetery in
Vienna-Simmering in 1922. In the competition, Holz-
meister had prevailed against Josef Hoffmann and the
building made the young architect famous overnight,
ultimately leading to his appointment to the Vienna
Academy of Fine Arts. Clemens Holzmeister managed
his office in Bolzano together with Luis Trenker, who
had just finished his architectural studies in Graz. Par-
allel to the construction of the Drei Zinnen Hotel, Tren-
ker also worked on a film project. The mountaineering
movie "Struggle for the Matterhorn" became a great
success, and Trenker soon left the team with Holzmei-
ster to fully dedicate himself to mountaineering and the
corresponding film work. The rest is movie history!

Recovery from exhausting nights
"Professor Holzmeister always called his house the Tre
Cime," reports Waltraud Watschinger, the grand-
daughter of the builder today. She asked for a talk in
the Blue Bar, which is directly adjacent to the centrally
located hotel lobby. The tongue and groove cladding of
the walls is painted light blue, the slats are set off in
yellow, and the built-in drinks shelf is designed exactly
the other way round - with a yellow surface and blue
feathers. As in the whole house, the strong colour con-