Berghotel Wilhelmsburg
The Berghotel Wilhelmsburg (also shortened only called Wilhelmsburg) is originally in honor of I. Kaiser Wilhelm built clubhouse and now occupied as a hotel building in Bad Kosen . Due to its exposed position is part listed building to the landmark of the resort .
location
The Wilhelmsburg is 110 meters above the Saale and 222 meters above sea level on a plateau in the western part of the Nikolausberg at the exit of Bad Kösen on the right on the road to Eckartsberga . The now wooded mountainside was treeless until the beginning of the 20th century and was used as a vineyard. The hill and the vineyard below were owned by the mountain councilor Johann Gottfried Borlach in the 18th century . On the plateau stood a turret made of hewn quarry stone, which was both a vineyard house and a weather station for the Kösener saltworks .
history
The plateau was a popular excursion destination due to the view possible from there over Bad Kösen to Naumburg and to Rudelsburg . In Bad Kösen, the King Wilhelm's Warrior Association was founded in 1866 by participants in the wars of 1864 and 1866 as a veterans' association . He had his regular table in a room in the Hotel Kurgarten am Walde . After the founding of the empire in 1871 , the members of the association decided to build their own clubhouse. At the instigation of the board member Friedrich Wolf, they bought the former Borlach property from the owner at the time and began building a house. The topping-out ceremony took place on May 10, 1875. During the construction of the tower , which was built around 1750 and called the flag , was included in the design of the facility. On January 28, 1876, the association received imperial permission to name the structure Kaiser-Wilhelms-Burg . The first tenant of the restoration housed in the building was Wolf, his successor the landlord Andrä, whose father-in-law Gottlieb Wagner , known as Samiel , ran the Rudelsburg. At the end of the 1890s, the Wilhelmsburg experienced a special influx of guests because the host couple Barthel had adopted the chief's daughter Killymane from the Transvaal , who attended school in Bad Kösen, but also served as a marveled " exotic woman " in the restaurant.
In 1920 the number of members of the war club due to a lack of young talent and thus also the membership fees had decreased so much that the club could no longer service the building cost loan that had not yet been fully repaid. The Wilhelmsburg was therefore sold to the tenant Paul Schubert. The Wilhelmsburg was then - with the name Bergschlößchen changed after 1945 - until the city of Bad Kösen bought it in 1968 to use it as a youth hostel . However, since the city could not raise the funds necessary for a necessary renovation, it sold the building on short notice to VEB Kyffhäuserhütte , a mechanical engineering company in Artern , who made it available to employees as a company holiday home in Bergschlößchen for holidays and later as a company holiday camp for their children posed.
In the course of privatization after German reunification, the property was sold by the Treuhandanstalt in 1991 to the Bad Kösener Becker family, who in 1994 added a new detached guest house. It has been called Berghotel Wilhelmsburg since it was privatized .
Furnishing
The Wilhelmsburg was built in the neo-Gothic style. The ballroom had ceiling paintings created by the Bad Kösener master painter Leschke with portraits of the military leaders in the wars of 1864, 1866 and 1870. The historicizing facade was demolished during the GDR era . The ceiling paintings in the ballroom were destroyed, the hall itself was roughly halved by renovation, which means that it can still accommodate around 50 to 60 people today. Despite these interventions in the original structure, the complex can still be recognized as neo-Gothic. It thus represents the last secular building of this style in the place.
Known guests
- Entomologist Heinrich Friese , who conducted field research in the area around 1885.
- Composer Max Kuhring, who set the song Greetings from the "Wilhelmsburg" to music around 1910 .
- East Asian explorer Alexander von Siebold on May 7, 1898.
- Economist Max Weber as a youth in the summer of 1878.
literature
- W. Faust: The Kaiser Wilhelm castle in Bad Kosen , in: Kurzeitung and official tourist list . Bad Kosen, No. 17 of August 6, 1927 S. 1-2.
- Ruth Merten: A tower room with a view of the Saale , in: Welt am Sonntag of November 17, 1991.
- Anonymous: New ways in hotel marketing , in: Gastropodium, No. 131 of January 7, 1998, p. 1.
- Hans-Dieter Speck: What Kaiser Wilhelm once baptized personally , in: Naumburger Tageblatt of April 24, 2010 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ From the graduation house, the grader watched the metal weather vane on the turret. This was necessary for the correct irrigation of the graduation house: So that the brine was not blown out over the mandrel walls, the side facing the wind was irrigated. By observing the distant weather vane, the graduation master was able to take the necessary precautions before the wind hit the graduation tower.
- ↑ According to Otto Theodor Rosenberger: Kösen. To give away and remember for bathers , 4th revised edition, Naumburg and Kösen printed by J. Domrich and JG Merzyn, around 1865 without the year, the builder was Borlach. Since Borlach did not come to Kösen until 1737 and died in 1768, the tower must have been built during this time.
- ↑ Ulrich van der Heyden and Joachim Zeller: Colonialism in this country. A search for traces in Germany , 2008, p. 404.
- ↑ See Stettiner entomologische Zeitung, Volume 83-85, 1922, p. 137 .
- ↑ Treatises of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, class for chemistry, geology and biology, issues 1-3, 1959, p. 223.
- ↑ Vera Schmidt (Ed.): Alexander Freiherr von Siebold, Tagebücher , Volume 2 (= publications of the East Asia Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum, Vol. 33), Wiesbaden 1999, p. 914
- ↑ Max Weber; Marianne Weber (Ed.): Youth letters . Tübingen o. J. (1936), p. 6.
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 56.5 " N , 11 ° 42 ′ 45.8" E