Central Plaza Zurich
The Hotel Central Plaza is a 4-star hotel in Zurich . It is located on the northern edge of the old town on the right side of the Limmat opposite the main train station . The hotel was built in 1883 and opened shortly before the Swiss National Exhibition in 1883 .
The hotel currently has 101 rooms which, depending on the time of booking and room category (single room to suite), cost between 200 and 540 Swiss francs (as of July 2013). The house also has three seminar rooms that can accommodate between 16 and 50 guests, the “King's Cave” restaurant with 84 seats in the basement, a hotel bar with live piano music on the ground floor and a terrace in the summer months.
The building is clearly visible from many points along the Limmat and, for example, from the Lindenhof, and is an integral part of the Zurich cityscape.
history
In the years 1882 and 1883 the hotel, which gave the “ Central ” square in front of it its name, was built by the construction company Baur & Nabholz on the site of the Escher-Wyss machine factory. In 1892 Emil Baltischwiler acquired the hotel from the builders, and on October 1, 1909, he sold it back to the Paul Julius Elwert-Eggen family, ancestors of the current owners. Under the management of Edi Elwert, who ran the house from 1919 to the 1970s, the “Central” became a well-known and valued address in Zurich.
The Stampfenbachstrasse, the former "Strasse nach Schaffhausen" or "Untere Strasse", which gave the district of Unterstrass its name, runs past the Hotel Central . To the north of the hotel, between the street and the Limmat, there has been a mill since the 12th century , the “Paradise Mill ”. Around 1657, with the construction of the third city fortification, it was integrated into what was then the paradise bulwark . For this purpose the mill was rebuilt as a "Walchi" ( cloth mill ) and called "Neumühle"; the current name of the Neumühlequais, which leads past the hotel to the west, and the Walcheplatz and the Walchebrücke are a reminder of this.
In 1922, the single-storey, partly semicircular porch was added on the Neumühlequais side, where parts of the hotel bar are now located. On November 3, 1950, the Leonhardplatz in front of the house was officially renamed "Central" by the Zurich city council, as it was only called that by the population and the original name was hardly known to the people of Zurich.
As the hotel no longer lived up to modern demands, an almost complete renovation of the existing outer walls took place from December 1981 to November 1983. The building was completely hollowed out and rebuilt from bottom to top, only the facade from 1883 remained. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated 100 years after its initial opening in the courtyard of the State Museum across from the hotel on the left bank of the Limmat. Hotel operations were resumed in September 1983. As a special feature, preparations were made under the house for the Hirschengraben tunnel of the Zurich S-Bahn , which only opened in 1989 : only at this point does the otherwise single-tube tunnel run in a two-lane box built at the time under the adjoining Publicitas house due to the narrow height difference.
In the years that followed, major and minor modifications were made repeatedly. At the beginning of the nineties, for example, some new rooms were rented from the neighboring building, in 1997 the bank branch on the central side of the building was partially dismantled and as a result the in-house restaurant was enlarged, and new rooms were set up on the 1st floor instead of some offices in 2005-2006. Also in 2006 the hotel got a fitness room and the reception was redesigned.
literature
- Walter Baumann: A guest in old Zurich. Hugendubel, Munich 1992.
- Hartmann Rordorf: Between Niederdorfpforte, Leonhardsplatz and Stampfenbach in Zurich . Zurich Monthly Chronicle No. 1, Zurich 1936
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2015 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. Price list can be viewed individually, retrieved on July 1, 2013
- ↑ Source: Central Plaza hotel brochure for the 130th anniversary
- ↑ Source: Statistics City of Zurich, Quartierspiegel Hochschulen
- ↑ Walk through Alt-Züri: street names
- ^ Source: Excerpt from the minutes of the Zurich City Council, November 3, 1950
Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '36.5 " N , 8 ° 32' 37.4" E ; CH1903: 683,458 / two hundred forty-seven thousand nine hundred sixteen