Berghotel Friedrichroda
The Berghotel Friedrichroda is a holiday and conference hotel opened in 1980 as the “August Bebel” rest home of the FDGB on the Reinhardsberg on the outskirts of the climatic health resort Friedrichroda in the Thuringian Forest .
history
The Berghotel Friedrichroda was opened in 1980 as the " August Bebel " rest home of the GDR union FDGB. The building complex erected on the Reinhardsberg was the largest and one of the most modern FDGB holiday homes. It was primarily reserved for well-deserved GDR citizens with many children. During the GDR era, the hotel had 1,500 beds. Some testimonies from the time as the FDGB rest home are archived in the Museum of Regional History and Folklore in Gotha .
After the fall of the Wall , the Treuhandanstalt sold the hotel to Euromill Hotelmanagement GmbH , which, however, filed for bankruptcy in 1999 . In 1999 the hotel group Albeck & Zehden from Berlin took over the operation with a new business division, from which the independent hotel group Ahorn Hotels emerged. In 2010 the mountain hotel was renamed the Ahorn Berghotel Friedrichroda .
architecture
The “August Bebel” rest home was built in 1979 by VEB Bau Gotha as an industrial precast concrete structure. The building is well structured with distinctive balcony elements and different facades made of exposed concrete , sandstone and glass . The individual buildings are structured and staggered with up to twelve floors . Compared to the usual prefabricated building in the GDR in the late 1970s, the building is characterized by a rather elaborate and representative architecture.
Hotel operations
With its 457 rooms on twelve floors, it is the largest hotel in Thuringia . The three-star hotel is part of the Ahorn Hotels. The in-house gastronomy includes a bar, a buffet restaurant, a beer garden and a panoramic steak restaurant on the 12th floor.
literature
- Ulrich Wieler: Architectural Guide Thuringia: From the Bauhaus to the Year 2000 , Volume 1. Bauhaus-Universität, Universitätsverlag, Weimar 2001, ISBN 9783860681398 , p. 110
- Heike Wolter: The green heart of the GDR. Tourism in the Thuringian Forest 1945–1989. Thuringia sheets for regional studies, ed. from the State Center for Political Education Thuringia, Erfurt 2007; on-line
Web links
- Berghotel Friedrichroda , company website ahorn-hotels.de
- Where the East went on vacation: Vacation in the FDGB holiday home Friedrichroda , video, MDR time travel , June 28, 2004
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Building in Gotha under new orders. In: thueringer-allgemeine.de. Retrieved May 31, 2016
- ↑ Nancy Allmrodt: Geotourism in Thuringia: An analysis of the demand structure of the National Geoparks Inselberg three peers. Diplomica, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8428-6004-9
- ^ Holidays in the FDGB holiday home Friedrichroda . In: mdr.de. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
- ↑ advertising designs for the FDGB Ferienheim Friedrichroda. In: Archive. Photo archive Photo Marburg, accessed on June 2, 2016 .
- ^ Matthias Schäfer: The Berlin entrepreneur Michael Zehden operates former FDGB holiday homes as cheap hotels: Not only for people with allergies , Berliner Zeitung , March 3, 2008
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↑ Ahorn-Berghotel Friedrichroda almost fully booked. In: thueringer-allgemeine.de. Accessed on May 31, 2016 number of
overnight stays rose again in 2015 in the Gotha district. In: thueringer-allgemeine.de. Retrieved May 31, 2016 - ↑ Our restaurants on the Rennsteig , company website ahorn-hotels.de. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '52.9 " N , 10 ° 34' 4.3" E