Europe House (Flensburg)

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The Europa-Haus with his name in 2011

The Europa-Haus is a commercial building in the city of Flensburg . The original hotel building from the 19th century is located at the Flensburg ZOB and has the address Rathausstraße 1–3. Numerous celebrities stayed in the former hotel. The building was registered as a cultural monument in downtown Flensburg .

background

Construction as a hotel

Around 1860 were at the Town Hall Street, which since 1853 the old town hall , two led gable constant Hauser probably in the romantic - neo-gothic built style. Before the ZOB was set up there (near the city's important transport hub), Flensburg train station had stood there since 1855 . In 1865 the two buildings were converted into a station hotel, they were connected to one another and given a common facade. Today's corner building at Süderhofenden / Rathausstrasse was built in 1881 on behalf of the hotel owner Christian Schrader in the neo-renaissance style as an extension of the station hotel , which, together with the neighboring houses, the former Flensburg post office (today's Alte Post , Rathausstrasse 2) and the Hotel Flensburger Hof (today's police headquarters , Norderhofenden 1) formed an ensemble of historicist architecture and at that time exuded metropolitan flair.

Purchase by the Prien families

On February 18, 1924, the Prien family from Flensburg bought the station hotel in need of renovation from its Danish owner. In 1927 the train station was relocated to its current location, so that potential hotel guests no longer get off directly at the hotel. With the outbreak of the global economic crisis in 1929, the Reichsmark was devalued and the Danish krona, in which the purchase price of the hotel was agreed, increased in value. In 1931 Germany's first bus station was put into operation in place of the old train station. In 1937 the purchase price could finally be paid. It was not until 1961 that the hotel lost its name with reference to the train station and was renamed "Hotel Europa", from which the current name of the building is derived.

Relegated celebrities

Numerous celebrities stayed at the hotel. When Adolf Hitler came to Flensburg in 1932 for his speech in the Flensburg Stadium for the Prussian state elections in the 4th electoral term , he stayed in room 24 of the hotel. A whole area in front of the hotel was cordoned off for his visit, behind which crowds of people crowded for the occasion. Hitler is said to have spent the evening alone, ate a vegetable platter with mineral water. Meanwhile, his party comrades held a wild booze in the hotel. It was Hitler's only “public visit” to Flensburg. (Another, but top secret and therefore not public visit by Hitler took place in 1936 with the Aviso Grille at the " port in front of the Mürwik Naval School ". During this voyage, however, he did not stay in a hotel, but stayed on board.) After the Second World War well-known democratic politicians also visited the hotel. Gustav Heinemann , Willy Brandt , Walter Scheel , Helmut Kohl and Hans-Dietrich Genscher stayed in the hotel. Musicians, humorists and various show greats also visited the hotel, for example: Lou van Burg , Lionel Hampton with his orchestra, Udo Jürgens , Loriot , Karl Dall and Rudi Carrell .

Conversion to today's commercial building

The Prien family ran the hotel until it closed on January 31, 1992. The owner family did not have the money to invest in structural changes. A long period of vacancy followed, during which the building suffered very badly. In 2002/2003 the former hotel was finally converted into a commercial building. The large marble staircase from 1881 and a former breakfast room with an expressionist design from the 1920s have been preserved.

From 2003 to 2012 the tourist information was located in the shop facing the ZOB. Then a snack bar moved into the shop, which is still there today.

A controversial multi-storey car park was built next to and behind the Europa-Haus in 2015, which has since dominated the building in a contrasting way.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eiko Wenzel, Henrik Gram: Zeitzeichen, Architektur in Flensburg . 2015, p. 45.
  2. ^ Lutz Wilde : Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 236 f.
  3. ^ Eiko Wenzel, Henrik Gram: Zeitzeichen, Architektur in Flensburg. 2015, p. 45.
  4. ^ Lutz Wilde : Flensburg. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein , volume 2.) 2001, p. 236 f.
  5. ↑ Gerhard Nowc: Moin Flensburg! Stories and anecdotes from the old Fördestadt. Gudensberg-Gleichen 2007, page 49.
  6. ^ Dieter-Jürgen Mehlhorn: Architecture in Schleswig-Holstein. From the Middle Ages to the present. Page 133.
  7. ↑ Gerhard Nowc: Moin Flensburg !. Stories and anecdotes from the old Fördestadt. Gudensberg-Gleichen 2007, page 49 f.
  8. ^ Eiko Wenzel, Henrik Gram: Zeitzeichen, Architektur in Flensburg . 2015, p. 45.
  9. ↑ Gerhard Nowc: Moin Flensburg !. Stories and anecdotes from the old Fördestadt. Gudensberg-Gleichen 2007, page 48 ff.
  10. ↑ Gerhard Nowc: Moin Flensburg !. Stories and anecdotes from the old Fördestadt. Gudensberg-Gleichen 2007, page 49 f.
  11. ↑ Flensburg Journal : When Adelsby was still a village , from: February 23, 2018; accessed on: February 23, 2018
  12. ↑ Harald Sandner: Hitler - Das Itinerar (Volume III): Places of residence and journeys from 1889 to 1945 - Volume III: 1934-1939 . Berlin Story Verlag, 2017,
  13. ↑ Gerhard Nowc: Moin Flensburg !. Stories and anecdotes from the old Fördestadt. Gudensberg-Gleichen 2007, page 51
  14. ↑ Gerhard Nowc: Moin Flensburg !. Stories and anecdotes from the old Fördestadt. Gudensberg-Gleichen 2007, page 51 f.
  15. ↑ Gerhard Nowc: Moin Flensburg !. Stories and anecdotes from the old Fördestadt. Gudensberg-Gleichen 2007, page 52
  16. ^ Eiko Wenzel, Henrik Gram: Zeitzeichen, Architektur in Flensburg . 2015, p. 45.

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Coordinates: 54 ° 47 ′ 11.3 "  N , 9 ° 26 ′ 11.6"  E