Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa
Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa is a five-star - Hotel of the Oetker Hotel Management Company belonging Brenners Park-Hotel GmbH at the light Allee in Baden-Baden . The hotel, run under the Oetker Collection brand , is one of the Leading Hotels of the World .
history
1800-1900
The history of the hotel began in 1834 under the name of Stephanienbad . The name was a homage to Princess Stephanie of Baden , adopted daughter of Napoleon and from 1811 to 1818 the mother of Baden. In 1857 the house became the property of French entrepreneurs. The Paris newspaper Estafette raved about Baden-Baden as a summer Paris. Stéphanie les Bains became a magnet for French society. The Franco-Prussian War brought this to an abrupt end.
In 1872, the Pforzheim clothing manufacturer and court tailor Anton Alois Brenner bought the hotel and the adjoining property for over 170,000 guilders for his daughter and her husband, who had previously run the small Hotel Blume . However, he died in 1875, and since then Anton Brenner seems to have successfully run the hotel, to which he had given his new name.
In 1882 the house with an estimated value of half a million gold marks was signed over to Anton Brenner's son Camille Brenner. The rise of the house began with this hotelier. A contemporary newspaper wrote about Camille Brenner: “Like a prince, obsessed with collecting and building, he created his hotel in ever new metamorphoses. He furnished it with carpets that aroused the envy and admiration of collectors, with exquisite originals and with antiques, with which he was the first to furnish the luxurious apartments. ”That was when the foundation for today's Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa was laid.
Major renovations were carried out from 1895, when today's Villa Augusta was built as Villa Imperial ; With the purchase of the neighboring Palais Stourdza , the park was added, which reached as far as the Oos .
Since 1900
In May 1900 the new wing of the main building was opened, so that over 200 rooms with the most comfortable furnishings were available in the Hotel Stephanie. Prince Otto von Bismarck , the Grand Duke Michael Nikolajewitsch Romanow , who like many Russian nobles came regularly to Baden-Baden, Edward Prince of Wales, the later English King Edward VII , and the Maharaja of Kapurthala and King Chulalongkorn of Siam were among them the guests. Furthermore, one met artists of all branches and the representatives of the big banking houses and industrialists like Henry Ford here. The Americans always made up the largest proportion of the foreign guests. Camille Brenner relied on the influence of the automobile on travel behavior, built the first German hotel garage and designed car trips to the Black Forest .
Camille Brenner died in Cannes in 1914 . He did not leave his widow and five children an easy inheritance. In 1912 he had bought the Hotel Minerva, but had problems with the authorities during the renovation. The building was rescheduled as a sanatorium. Because of the outbreak of the First World War , it could never be put into operation. Camille Brenner had to raise considerable capital to invest in the construction. Augusta Brenner and her son Kurt took over the management. First of all, the hotel had to be closed, not only because of the departure of foreign guests, but also because most of the male staff was drafted into military service. It was not until April 1920 that post-war conditions had stabilized to such an extent that regular hotel operations could resume. Although the international regulars from the pre-war period stopped visiting the hotel, the hotel quickly filled up again.
In 1922 Augusta Brenner and her five children founded the Brenners Hotel Aktiengesellschaft , which was primarily intended to facilitate the division of inheritance. Kurt and Alfred Brenner took over from their father in the practice and ran the business together. In line with the father's wishes, the hotel business could be resumed. Although the foreign regular guests from the pre-war period stayed away, they rounded off the hotel complex, which in 1924 extended from Bertholdstraße to Palais Gagarine.
The hotel regards 1927 as the zenith of its early history. In no season have so many reports of famous visitors and interesting events entered the world press. Almost 400 beds were available and around 500 staff took care of the well-being of the guests, almost half of whom were Americans. What was a blessing up until then, brought above-average losses in the Great Depression of 1929, which quickly got the hotel company into trouble. But even if the Americans stayed away, the houses were not empty. In 1930 the guest lists mention names such as Franz Lehár and Richard Tauber , Wilhelm Furtwängler or Ferdinand Sauerbruch .
Since the Casino Baden-Baden opened in 1933 , things had also improved with foreign guests. In 1936 they reached a share of 63 percent. Among them were such well-known names as Walt Disney , the Prince of Monaco and the Maharajah of Kapurthala with his son. At the height of the brief upswing, Kurt and Alfred Brenner achieved 40,000 overnight stays in 1937. The Second World War hit the Brenners in 1939 in the midst of a flourishing development. A few days after the start of the war, parts of the hotel had to be closed. The Hotel Stéphanie remained closed throughout the war due to a lack of staff. In 1941 the Villa Stephanie with the Park Hotel with 65 guest beds was able to be put back into operation.
Also in 1941, the Rudolf-August Oetkers family , who had owned shares in Brenners Hotel AG since 1922, acquired the majority of the shares.
After the end of the war, Brenners was briefly the seat of the French governorate in 1945, but then had to be cleared for the Commander-in-Chief of the French Armed Forces in Germany, Marie-Pierre Kœnig . The other buildings in the complex were also confiscated. At the end of September 1949, the Park Hotel was opened as the first building in the hotel complex. The general thanked for the involuntary hospitality with the order that it should be quickly restored and opened as a hotel, which happened on April 1, 1950. In the first year around 17,000 guests were counted, almost half of them from abroad, with the hotel only having a third of the number of beds available in the pre-war period. It was not until 1955 that the main complex became free again, but it was so badly damaged that after unsuccessful attempts to rescue it in 1962 it had to be demolished except for the wing built in 1900.
In 1962 Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle held preliminary talks on the Franco-German friendship treaty in Brenners .
In 1969 the family tradition came to an end when Alfred Brenner left the management team after 50 years in the hotel company founded by his grandfather.
Hotel and restaurant
The house contains a total of 104 hotel rooms, junior suites, suites and the Royal Penthouse Suite. There are three restaurants in total.
Brenners Spa houses a saunarium, fitness center and Roman-style indoor swimming pool. It offers facial and full body treatments , make-up advice, manicures and pedicures , jet-lag treatments as well as body wraps with essential oils and exotic massage rituals. There are also various medical services.
In January 2015, the Villa Stéphanie, which belongs to the complex, was opened as a spa . It is attached to Haus Julius, a medical center that offers medical tourism.
The hotel is operated by Brenners Park-Hotel GmbH and has around 295 employees (as of 05/2014). Frank Marrenbach is the managing director.
The restaurant
The Brenners Park-Restaurant was last awarded two Michelin stars from 2015 to 2017 under head chef Paul Stradner . From September 2017 to March 2018 the restaurant was redesigned. In October 2018 the restaurant was reopened as Fritz & Felix with the chef Sebastian Mattis. There is also the Wintergarten restaurant and the Rive Gauche Brasserie in the LA8 cultural center .
In the media
- In SWR television was between the years a four-part documentary on the training aired at the hotel from 25 December 2013 to 1 January 2014.
- The Brenners took first place on the 2008 hotel ranking for Germany by Capital magazine .
- The former hotel director Richard Schmitz published his memories from thirty years in the hotel in 2007 as a book entitled For the shine in the eyes .
- An episode of Rita Knobel-Ulrich's documentary series Menschen und Hotels from 2002 on NDR television was about the Brenners Park Hotel.
- In Claude Miller's 1983 feature film Das Auge , several scenes are set with Isabelle Adjani in the Brenners.
Memberships
- The Leading Hotels of the World
- Oetker Collection
- Selection of German luxury hotels
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Information from the Baden-Baden City Archives
- ↑ konrad-adenauer.de: Entry in Adenauer's calendar from February 15, 1962 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Brenners Park Hotel: Geschichte ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 1, 2010
- ↑ oetkercollection.com: Restaurants & Bars
- ↑ villastephanie.com
- ^ Villa Stephanie: Medical Care
- ↑ restaurant-ranglisten.de: Brenners Park-Restaurant is being redesigned
- ↑ Fritz & Felix started in Baden-Baden ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Brenners - Years of Apprenticeship in the Grand Hotel ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2013 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. swrfernsehen.de from December 25, 2013
- ↑ Hotels: The Best Hotels in Germany 2008. (No longer available online.) Capital, archived from the original on September 4, 2009 ; Retrieved December 19, 2009 . 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.
Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′ 21.5 " N , 8 ° 14 ′ 23.9" E