Axelmannstein
The Axelmannstein is a traditional luxury hotel in Bad Reichenhall in the Berchtesgadener Land . The hotel building, the adjoining buildings and the hotel park are under monument protection .
history
The first buildings on the site of today's hotel are said to date back to Celtic times. The meadow Ehsilmanstain was mentioned for the first time around 1017 in a property register of the Tegernsee monastery . (The big boulder in the park of the hotel could be the Ehsilmanstain). In 1432 the salt boiler family Fröschl leased the meadow from the Tegernsee monastery. In 1587, the Achselmanstein seat (residence) was removed from the Karlstein Hofmark. This is the first mention of a building at this point. It was a Renaissance chateau with a rectangular floor plan and four round corner towers. The Tegernsee Monastery sold the property in 1629 to the Salzmaier (head of the salt works) of Reichenhall. The first major renovations and new building measures took place in 1657. The 17th and 18th centuries brought often changing owners for the country castle, mostly rural nobles. In 1761 a cotton knitting mill was set up in the building, which was in operation until 1807. After that the vacant building became more and more neglected. When great fire of 1834 , the armpit Manstein burned down. The ruined site was acquired by the manager of the salt works, Kaspar von Reiner, who had a representative house built in the classical style in 1837.
see also lost Axelmannstein Castle
Reiner's son-in-law Ernst Rink opened the Achselmannstein brine and whey spa as the city's first spa hotel on May 15, 1846 . It was the starting point for the Bad Reichenhall state spa. The decisive factor for the location was the favorable location to the neighboring graduation systems on Poststrasse. The new house got off to a difficult start, however. However, when the young Bavarian King Maximilian II and his entourage took a five-week cure in Achselmannstein in 1848, the dry spell was over and the number of guests rose sharply. The building was expanded in 1853. From 1909 to 1911, the hotelier Alois Seethaler tore down the building and rebuilt it in its largely existing form. Today it is a listed building . In order to make the hotel more attractive for foreign guests, Alois Seethaler changed the spelling to Axelmannstein. The regime critic Carl Muth died in 1944 in Axelmannstein, to which a Munich hospital had been evacuated. The hotel was partially destroyed by bombs in 1945. After the Second World War it was taken over by the Steigenberger hotel group . Erich Kästner's work The Little Border Traffic takes place partly in the hotel. Kästner was also one of the guests in the house.
In 2008 the closure of the hotel was announced; then it became known that the Steigenberger Group had sold the hotel and two others to the EP Group . It was initially operated under the name Steigenberger . From July 2009 to the beginning of October 2010 the hotel belonged to the Radisson Blu hotel chain and the hotel name was Radisson Blu Axelmannstein Resort . Then the hotel separated from the Radisson Blu brand and operated under the name Axelmannstein Hotel Bad Reichenhall . Since January 1, 2014 the name has been " Wyndham Grand Hotel Axelmannstein". The management of the hotel will remain in the hands of the hotel management company Grand City Hotels & Resorts . Changes in content are not associated with the brand change.
Furnishing
The hotel is located in a 30,000 m² park and has, among other things, an indoor swimming pool , a sauna and a beauty farm . The gastronomy includes two restaurants , a café and a bar . The Axelmannstein has 151 rooms, 5 suites and 6 junior suites.
literature
- Herbert Pfisterer: Bad Reichenhall in its Bavarian history. Motor + Touristik, Munich 1988.
Individual evidence
- ^ Bettina Stummeyer: Famous baths in Bavaria - Bad Reichenhall . Bayerischer Rundfunk (ed.). 2002.
- ↑ The small border traffic through the ages. ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2016 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. on the website of the Erich Kästner Gymnasium Eislingen.
- ↑ Axelmannstein separates from Radisson Blu. In: AHGZ Online. October 5, 2010.
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 35.2 ″ N , 12 ° 52 ′ 55.5 ″ E