Casino Travemünde
The Casino Travemünde was until 2012 one of the oldest casinos in Germany. A first official casino was opened in Travemünde in 1825 .
The building is now used as a hotel.
history
1816 to 1872
Joachim Christian Grube, co-lessor of the restaurant since 1808, set up the lodging house that Dr. med. Danzmann has owned a casino since 1816. After Danzmann had sold to Grube in 1820, the latter became the sole operator. Grube in turn sold his expanded property in 1833 for 116,300 Mark Courant to Heinrich Behrens (1804–1874).
The casino, which was tolerated and licensed since 1833 - roulette was also introduced in the same year - was also an attraction for the numerous passengers on the Baltic Sea ferries that operated here from the 1830s. Servants, farm boys and similar persons were excluded from the game, initially twenty Friedrich d'or annually went to the poor. The amount was increased to thirty in 1842, and to fifty ten years later. A third of the income flowed to "the madhouse to strengthen its building fund" in 1856-8 (1858: 235 M 12 sh.). The owner changed in 1859/60. Martin Heinrich Cords from Hamburg and Bartholomäus Georg Kayser acquired the bathing establishment and its facilities. The concession fees were used to finance the first gas lighting of the streets in 1860. The next time the license was extended in 1863, 200 Friedrich d'or levies were due. The closure took place at the end of the 1872 season; the license would have expired at this point.
Until 1949
The house in which the casino was located was built between 1913 and 1914 by the architects Willy Glogner and Paul Vermehren in Art Nouveau style on Kaiserallee. It was initially used as a conversation center and spa center. During the First World War , the building temporarily served as a hospital . Concerts took place in the summer after the end of the war; in the winter months the house was used to store beach chairs . It was also used as a military hospital during World War II . After the end of the Second World War, officers of the British occupation used the building as an officers' mess .
Municipal Kursaal
From 4th to 6th August 1921 Travemünde had a great social event to record. The first German show of the upcoming autumn fashions took place in the municipal Kursaal under the direction of the company Rudolph Karstadt, Lübeck . The new fashion models from Berlin and Vienna were presented by Berlin and Vienna tasting ladies, the name given to models at the time . Around 200 models were shown in two hours: morning gowns , promenade costumes and coats , as well as visiting, tea and party clothes. In addition magnificent furs .
The show underlined the high standard of German fashion workshops. Vienna maintained its old priority in intellectual, artistic invention. The fashion show gave the elegant life of Travemünde a new, extremely attractive note. The event took place in favor of Deutsche Kinderhilfe.
- Travemuende fashion show 1921
Left: Dress made of black silk cashmere trimmed with Spanish lace . Pagoda sleeves and green silk belt trimmed with rosettes and pearls . Right: Afternoon dress made of striped changement taffeta with a waist made of brown velvet.
left: terra colored costume from monkey skin with white Krimmer . right: costume with tie belt and cape , kimono sleeves and button set , stand-up collar and cuffs with fur.
Evening dress , gold brocade with a tulle overskirt
1949 to 2004
Gaming began in 1949 with the licensing of games of chance. The most prominent guests included the actor Curd Jürgens and the Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis . In the well-known nightclub Belle Epoque were Lale Andersen , Vico Torriani and Josephine Baker on.
An annex was added to the house in the 1980s. Parts of the building were empty in the 1990s; Dance parties were held on weekends in the premises from 1998 onwards. In 2001 the building was renovated. Until then, the Lübeck Press Association had regularly celebrated the Lübeck Press Ball there.
In 2004 the operating company of the Hotel Casino Travemünde, which was located in the building, filed for bankruptcy.
Since 2005
In 2005, the hotel group Columbia Hotels & Resorts took over the hotel from the casino, and the hotel was renamed “Columbia Hotel Casino Travemünde”. The casino withdrew to a wing of the building. The hotel has been rated five stars since 2009.
In December 2012 the casino moved to Lübeck.
In 2015 the Atlantic hotel group based in Bremen took over the operation of the hotel. The shipowner Heinrich Schoeller sold 50 percent of the building to the Gustav Zech Foundation and to Gustav Zech, who runs the Atlantic Hotel on Schmiedestrasse in Lübeck. After modernizations, in which issues of monument protection had to be taken into account, the hotel was renamed the “Atlantic Grand Hotel Travemünde” in 2016.
La Belle Epoque restaurant (2005-2015)
From 2005 to 2015 Kevin Fehling managed the restaurant La Belle Epoque here , which was a three-star restaurant from 2012 to 2015 . It was the northernmost three-star restaurant in the world. After Fehling's departure, it has not been run as a gourmet restaurant since mid-2015.
literature
- C. Wehrmann: The seaside resort in Travemünde. In: Journal for Luebeck History and Antiquity. Vol. 7, 1898, pp. 126f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Katharina Müller-Guild Master: Casino Travemünde - one of the oldest in Germany . Merian.
- ^ Bertelsmann: The Great Atlas of Germany, p. 69.
- ↑ Henry Lohner: Only those who are dead do not take any more risks . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8448-0977-0 , pp. 88-90.
- ↑ Nutcrackers and Santa Clauses. ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at: www.trave-netz.de , December 3, 2012.
- ^ Casino Travemünde on the side of the Baltic Sea spa Travemünde
- ↑ History of the house ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lübeck Press Ball ( Memento from June 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Hotel Casino Travemünde files for bankruptcy. In: General hotel and gastronomy newspaper. October 21, 2004.
- ↑ Casino Travemünde should become more attractive. In: General hotel and gastronomy newspaper. January 29, 2005.
- ↑ Nothing works for Casino Travemünde anymore. on: shz.de August 7, 2012.
- ↑ Columbia becomes Atlantic Grand Hotel Travemünde. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
- ↑ The Rheingau Gourmet & Wine Festival. ( Memento from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at: echo-online.de , November 22, 2013.
- ↑ COLUMBIA closes Restaurant Navette in Rüsselsheim. on: restaurant-ranglisten.de , May 21, 2015.
Coordinates: 53 ° 57 ′ 53.8 " N , 10 ° 52 ′ 46.2" E