Zuckerkandl, the general director of the
Silesian Iron Work of Gliwice, purchased the property at the city border of
Vienna in 1903. It was acquired as a "mineral spa together with cure-park." Since the 19th Century a mineral spring bubbled on the property. The original furnishings were made by the
Wiener Werkstätte with which the architect Hoffmann was involved. The ownership and management of the sanatorium were lost in the course of the
Aryanization of 1938. The sanitorium was more of a hotel than hospital and turned into a social and artistic venue of Viennese society. Among the treatments were mineral baths, physical therapies, therapeutic massages and physiotherapy. Convalescence cases and mental illnesses were especially treated in the upper classes. Through silence, light and air, and the rationality of the facility with ornament reduced to a minimum, which impaired the original artistic conception. After the death of Victor Zuckerkandls in 1927 the sanitarium was inherited by his nephews and nieces. From 1930, a son-in-law continued the business with little success.
Trude Zuckerkandl tried in 1938 to restore the ailing business. Before an economic recuperation, Austria's
Anschluss took place and in March 1938 was the
Aryanization. Towards the end of
World War II, the building served as a military hospital. In 1945, it was requisitioned by the Russian occupying forces. == Hospital ==