Arabella skyscraper
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Arabella high-rise Sheraton Munich Arabellapark Hotel |
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| Arabella house from the west | |
| List of skyscrapers in Munich | |
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| Place: | Munich- Arabellapark |
| Construction time : | 1966-1969 |
| Opening: | 1969 |
| Status : | completed |
| Architect : | Toby Schmidbauer |
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| Usage : | Hotel, office, apartment, clinic, doctor's office |
| Apartments : | 500 |
| Owner : | Arabella Hotel Holding |
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| Height : | 75 m |
The Arabella high-rise was built from 1966 to 1969 by the entrepreneur Josef Schörghuber in what was then Munich 's Bogenhausen district , now called Arabellapark . The house is 150 meters long and 19 meters wide, has 23 floors and a total height of 75 meters. The Hypo-Haus , which was completed in 1981, is in the immediate vicinity .
history
The architect of the house was Toby Schmidbauer . For the 1972 Olympic Games , a large part of the apartments was converted into a hotel. The Arabella Bogenhausen has become one of the largest hotels in Munich with 467 rooms and suites . Since suites are sometimes rented out as apartments for a longer term, the advertised number of hotel rooms is constantly changing (as of August 2012: 446). In addition to the hotel, this building also houses a clinic, around 500 rental apartments and around 100 offices and medical practices. The highest wellness area in the city of Munich is located on the roof.
As part of the joint venture between today's Arabella Hospitality Group and the Starwood Group in 1998, the hotel was renamed ArabellaSheraton Bogenhausen , and since October 2008 it has been operating under the name Sheraton Munich Arabellapark Hotel . It is now run as a joint operation with The Westin Grand Munich ( ArabellaSheraton Grand Hotel Munich until May 2009 ) on the opposite side. Both houses together form the largest conference hotel in southern Germany.
The world-famous Musicland Studios were located in the house . In the 1970s and 1980s, artists and bands such as The Rolling Stones , Led Zeppelin , Queen , Freddie Mercury , Electric Light Orchestra and Deep Purple recorded albums here. The German-American composer Gershon Kingsley lived in the Arabellahaus from the 1980s to the 1990s and also ran a recording studio there.
Demolition in 2026
At the beginning of May 2018, the owner company Bayerische Hausbau decided that the building should be demolished from 2026, as it had reached the end of its life cycle after 50 years of operation and the building fabric was preventing a sustainable renovation. Then it should be rebuilt in the same place. A few days earlier, Conservator General Mathias Pfeil had refused the request to put the house on the list of monuments and thus save it from demolition. It is a "completely normal skyscraper " that does not meet the criteria for a monument.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carmen Ick-Dietl: No rescue for the Arabella high-rise - that's what the tenants say. In: www.merkur.de. May 4, 2018, accessed May 6, 2018 .
- ^ Alfred Dürr: New building or renovation: the Arabellahaus is to be rebuilt. In: www.sueddeutsche.de. May 2, 2018, accessed May 6, 2018 .
Web links
- Homepage Sheraton Munich Arabellapark Hotel. Retrieved August 24, 2012 .
- Arabellahaus - Arabella Sheraton Bogenhausen. In: skyscraperpage.com. Retrieved July 9, 2012 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 4 ″ N , 11 ° 37 ′ 6 ″ E