Danziger Hof
The Hotel Danziger Hof was a luxury hotel in Gdansk , opened in 1899 , at the High Gate between Dominikswall (now Wały Jagiellońskie ) and the Coal Market. The building was demolished in 1961.
The neo-renaissance building was based on a design by the renowned Berlin architect Carl Gause , who is particularly well-known for sophisticated hotel buildings , and co-owner of the G. & C. Gause construction business , and was completed in 1899. The hotel had 120 rooms with 157 beds, a number of suites and a dining room for around 400 people. The restaurant, located on the ground floor of the building on Dominikswall, not only served to entertain hotel guests, but was also an attraction for the city's citizens. On the side of the Hoher Tor, there were seven shops on the ground floor in addition to the actual hotel entrance, which housed high-end retail stores, including an art gallery at times.
From February 8 to June 7, 1920, the hotel was the temporary seat of the Polish General Commissioner of the Free City of Gdansk . It housed The British & Polish Trade Bank AG from the end of the 1920s until the outbreak of World War II .
A musical event in the hotel was the appearance of the Berlin opera ensemble Kulturbund ( Jewish cultural association ) in January 1935 with the opera La serva padrona by Pergolesi . The Eulenspiegel cabaret also performed in the hotel .
In 1961 the house was demolished in order to build a furniture shop on this property, which in turn was converted into the city office of the airline Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT in 1972 .
Guests of the house
- Wilhelm Canaris , German admiral, chief of the military secret service
- Wojciech Kossak , Polish painter
- Ignacy Paderewski , Polish pianist
- Empress Auguste Viktoria and Kaiser Wilhelm II , 1903
- Prince Johann Georg of Saxony
literature
- West Prussian Architects and Engineers Association to Danzig eV (Ed.): Danzig and its buildings. Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1908, p. 218.