Landhotel Mader Steyr

History of the hotel: The oldest parts of the beautiful gabled building date from the early 16th century. The house was first recorded as being an inn in 1694, under he guidance of Johann Altwirth. Tsar Peter I. stayed here, when, in 1697, he journeyed to Europe. On his trip to Vienna he met the sister of the Duke of Lamberg and fell in love with her. He came to Steyr to learn the art of forging and manufactured three golden roses for his love and wanted to visit her at the castle of Lamberg. But when he he...(see more)ard that she had married anorher man just a few days before he gave the roses to the inn keeper, where the hotel derived its previous name from. In 1936 the Schweinschwaller family bought the building and managed the hotel through hard times. In 1965 the Mader family senior began to extend the "Gasthaus zu den 3 Rosen" for 3 decades, and by purchasing the house next door the hotel Mader was founded. The Mader family junior has been running the hotel since 1998.