InterContinental Berlin

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The InterContinental in Berlin

The InterContinental Berlin (until 1978: Berlin Hilton ) is a hotel opened in 1958 in the Tiergarten district of Berlin . It is located on Budapester Strasse and, with 558 rooms and 34 function rooms, is one of the largest German hotels . With an estimated 44.9 million euros it was ranked 6th among the hotels with the highest turnover in Germany and 3rd in Berlin.

history

In World War II, large parts of Berlin were - especially in the downtown area - destroyed. Many hotels were unusable due to bomb hits or - like the Hotel Adlon - were located in what was then East Berlin . The hotel was founded at the request of Conrad Hilton . At the time, the construction cost 27 million marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency around 64 million euros ) and was planned by the architects Pereira  & Luckman, Paul Schwebes and Hans Schoszberger , with Conrad Hilton giving rough guidelines on how to open the first house in Germany Hilton Hotels Group presented. The gardens were designed by Herta Hammerbacher . When it opened on November 28, 1958, the Hilton Berlin was considered the most modern hotel in Europe. With its characteristic facade design in the form of a chessboard pattern , the hotel is a landmark on the Landwehr Canal that can be seen from afar . The house is a listed building .

Buddy Bear Marlene in front of the Hotel InterContinental

Heads of state and members of government such as Bill Clinton , Jacques Chirac , George W. Bush and Henry Kissinger stayed at the hotel . Due to its outstanding position, the hotel has hosted many celebrities such as Marlene Dietrich , Alfred Hitchcock , Maria Callas , Sophia Loren , Louis Armstrong and Michael Jackson .

In 1978 the hotel business near the Großer Tiergarten was sold to the InterContinental Hotels Group and renamed InterContinental Berlin . In 1992 the Hilton Hotels Group took over the hotel operations of the former Interhotel Domhotel on Gendarmenmarkt , which has since been known as the Hilton Berlin . From April 1, 2011, it was run by the Neue Dorint and was named Dorint Hotel Convention Center until the end of May 2011 . Since June 2011 the hotel has been called InterContinental Berlin again.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin Interconti is now called the Dorint Hotel. ( Memento from April 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Welt-Online from April 1, 2011
  2. ↑ Guests and investors fly to German hotels . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 20, 2016, p. 22.
  3. ↑ Berliner Interconti will be the Interconti again. In: Berliner Morgenpost , May 24, 2011
  4. ↑ To Dorint and back - traditional hotels are called Interconti again. In: picture , May 25, 2011

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 25 ″  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 43 ″  E