Berghotel Rosstrappe
The Berghotel Rosstrappe is a listed hotel in the town of Thale in Saxony-Anhalt .
location
The hotel is located on the edge of the Harz Mountains high above Thale at the exit of the Bodetal . South of the hotel is the Roßtrappe , after which the hotel is named. The Winzenburg Tower is in the immediate vicinity . On the street side, the hotel can be reached via a spur road from the district road leading from Thale to Treseburg . To the west of the hotel complex is the mountain station of the chairlift leading up from Thale . Various hiking trails start from the hotel, including the Presidential Trail leading to Thale . The Bülowshöhe is a little below the hotel .
Architecture and equipment
The core of today's development goes back to the 1840s, with considerable renovations and modernizations being carried out later. The floor plan of the building is T-shaped, typical for the construction period. The facade is designed sparingly and is dominated by striking gables .
The hotel has 21 double and 7 single rooms. The halls and rooms of the house allow events with 20 to 180 participants. The mountain hotel has its own gastronomy. Two beer gardens are operated in the warmer season.
history
The origins of gastronomy in this area go back to the beginning of the 19th century. To the south of today's hotel, halfway to the Rosstrappe, a black shack called the Jagdschirm had been built. In this area, known as Eckhardshöhe , stood a simple log house consisting of only one room. Wooden benches and tables were simply set up around the house. Friderich entertained guests here on Sunday from May to October, although the number of travelers was small and on some days or weeks no one came. In the remaining months, Sonntag lived in Thale and worked as a blacksmith in the tin works in Thale. He also devoted himself to catching birds . The birch water sweetened with honey and diluted with spring water was well known . The water was brought in from a spring with a donkey . The price per jar was high, around 12.5 silver groschen , which was about twelve hourly wages for a bricklayer.
Sunday had leased the property from the forest administration. The forest administration required that a complaint book be kept ready. The guest books were created from this. The oldest surviving book dates from 1822, when 1,456 visitors signed up.
In 1849, the Thaler master mason Worch erected the first massive building on behalf of Sunday. For this purpose, Sonntag leased a hectare of land on Hedwigshöhe and set up a terrace with a view of the Harz foreland and the Hexentanzplatz on the other side of the Bodetal . From 1849, Sonntag ran the now existing Hotel Rosstrappe together with his son Christoph Heinrich Friedrich. Sonntag senior died in 1856. His son died on September 22nd, 1867 in the hotel. His successor was his son Friedrich August Christian. He had the Winzenburg Tower built as a lookout tower in 1889 and died in the hotel on October 9, 1898. His wife and eleven children did not continue the business. In 1899 it was sold to the Goslar distillery entrepreneur Karl Rost, from whom his son-in-law Otto Krug took over the hotel in 1909. In the years that followed, Otto Krug had the buildings largely demolished and replaced with new ones. In 1910 a new water pipe was built. In 1914 the hotel received central heating .
For a long time, the hotel was only approached via a narrow road from the Brunswick border. The costly road construction obligation of the Rosstrappen landlords included the path to the hotel as well as the upper section of the chute . In 1935 the road from Thale to Treseburg and the branch to the hotel were built.
Otto Krug died in 1939. His widow Elsbeth Krug, née Rost, ran the hotel until 1957. Her daughter Erika Krug then followed until December 16, 1966. The Berghotel Rosstrappe was then operated by the HO and rebuilt several times. In 1990 privatization took place again. In a short time the hotel had several owners or tenants. There were renovations, but ultimately a forced administration , foreclosure auction and then the hotel was closed. After Annett Schiebeck and Jan Müller became the new owners of the hotel in February 2006, the Berghotel Rosstrappe was reopened on July 15, 2007 after legal disputes over the use of the mountain hotel.
In June 2007 a new water pipe was completed after the old system stopped working. In August 2008 a new transformer station followed on the hotel premises and in April 2010 the connection to the public sewage system. In addition, the structures were gradually renovated and modernized. After a new fire alarm system in 2008, a reservoir for extinguishing water with a capacity of 180,000 liters was completed in summer 2009.
The building is listed as an inn under registration number 094 50648 in the local monument register.
literature
- Falko Grubitzsch: List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 7.2, Quedlinburg district. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-072-3 , page 227 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , Magdeburg.pdf, page 2299.
Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 23.8 " N , 11 ° 1 ′ 11.6" E