Mountain Hotel Gabelbach
The Berghotel Gabelbach is a hotel that has existed since 1912 at the Kickelhahn in the Thuringian Forest not far from the city of Ilmenau .
history
The planning for the construction of a hotel in the Gabelbachtal was started in 1909 by the state government of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . Construction work began soon afterwards and was completed in 1912 with the opening of the Kurhotel Gabelbach . From then on it served the upper classes of society as a summer resort or as a sports hotel in winter. At that time, the region was valued primarily for its clean air, which was not polluted by industrial fumes.
In 1942 the National Socialists arrested the Dutch Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn in the remote mountain hotel Gabelbach, which he was not allowed to leave. He was accompanied by his wife. However, he was able to move around the house quite freely and spent the last years of his life there in captivity before he died of a heart attack in 1944. On October 6, 2006, a memorial stone was erected in his honor on the hotel grounds.
After the end of the Second World War, it served as a rest home for the Central Committee of the SED and was no longer open to the public. The SED also accommodated foreign state guests here.
In 1990 the Nuremberg entrepreneur Karl Gaydoul bought the hotel and reopened it to the public. Since 1998 it has belonged temporarily to the Romantik Hotels association and was known as the Romantik Berg- und Jagdhotel Gabelbach . The hotel was taken over by the Graefenroda entrepreneur Peter Schulz on November 1, 2011 and extensively renovated and modernized in 2013. It reopened at the end of November 2013. Since 2019, the name has been Berg- und Spahotel Gabelbach . The hotel has 90 rooms and belongs to the 4 star hotel category .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 23 ″ N , 10 ° 53 ′ 5 ″ E