Seminarhaus auf der Gugl in Linz hosts seminars, company parties, customer receptions and weddings for groups from 6 to 240 people. The house offers 16 rooms inside the Landwirtschaftskammer Oberösterreich building, from a 22 m² room for six people to a 230 m² hall for up to 240. There are no bedrooms on site, so the program is built around days, evenings and celebrations.
Seminars and company events
Ten seminar rooms are named after trees and plants: Ahorn, Apfel, Birke, Birne, Efeu, Erle, Ginkgo, Linde, Platane and Seerose. They seat between 6 and 60 people depending on the room. Several look onto the park, and the Seerose room looks onto the natural pond. The house lists a flipchart, pinboard, projector, projection screen, speakers, Wi-Fi, LAN connections and a moderation trolley, and some rooms are air-conditioned. You state your preferred seating layout when you book. For a conference with a plenary and breakout groups, the two festive halls can take the plenary while the smaller rooms serve as workshop rooms under the same roof.
Weddings and receptions
The house also takes company parties, customer receptions, Christmas parties, barbecues, birthdays and weddings. The Großer Festsaal and the Kleiner Festsaal are the main rooms for these events. A large foyer overlooks the pond and the park, and a terrace is available in good weather.
Rooms and capacities
The Großer Festsaal measures 230 m² and is listed for 40 to 240 people. The Kleiner Festsaal measures 145 m² for 35 to 120 people and has a bright window front. Among the seminar rooms, Birke and Platane are the largest at 80 m² for 30 to 60 people. Ginkgo and Linde are 55 m² for 18 to 40 people, with park views. Apfel is 55 m² for 20 to 30. Birne is 48 m² for 18 to 35 and has its own kitchen. Seerose is 40 m² for 16 to 30. Ahorn and Efeu are 29 m² for 14 to 20 with skylights, and Erle is 22 m² for 6 to 10.
Accommodation
The former hotel operation ended in May 2017, and the house now concentrates on seminars and events. Guests who need to stay overnight book a hotel in Linz separately.
Catering
The restaurant seats 120 and works self-service style. It prepares two dishes every day, one of them vegetarian, plus soup and a salad bar, with a seasonal focus on ingredients from Upper Austria. Seminar breaks come with organic fairtrade coffee, organic tea, organic juices, fresh fruit and snacks including pastries from a local bakery. A snack buffet is available, evening events are arranged on request, and the kitchen handles food intolerances and allergies. The house holds the AMA Gastrosiegel, an organic certificate and the Gesunde Küche label. A seminar kitchen can also be rented for self-catered cooking.
Getting there
The house is at Auf der Gugl 3 in Linz. It is about 12 minutes on foot from Linz main station, and parking is free.
