Prince Hotel (Berlin)

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The Fürsten-Hotel on Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, corner of Markgrafenstrasse and Französische Strasse, 1906

In the Wilhelmine era, the Fürsten-Hotel was a middle-class hotel on Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin with the address Markgrafenstrasse 49 (since around 1914: number 41). The hotel only existed for a few years, from 1906 to 1909.

The location at Markgrafenstrasse 49

Map of the Fürsten Hotel
Map: Sineck, 1882
The corner house at Markgrafenstrasse / Französische Strasse, 2014

The house at Markgrafenstrasse No. 49 was on the northeast corner of Gendarmenmarkt at the intersection with Französische Strasse , directly opposite the French Cathedral , an excellent location for a hotel. Scheible's Hotel welcomed its guests here from 1851–1883 .

The older building, which housed Scheible's Hotel and which was built by the architect Carl von Gontard , was completely rebuilt (as can be seen in the Berlin address book of 1884) by the then owner, C. Maeder. The three-storey structure became a five-storey magnificent building in the style of the Wilhelmine era. Scheible's Hotel ceased operations in connection with this construction project. In the house, still owned by Maeder (now referred to as Rentier ), A. W. Gluthmann's India fiber manufactory started production and a small accommodation company offered its services, the Heinritz Pension , named after its owner A. Schmidt -Heinritz. In addition, three wealthy families lived in it (factory owners, bankers).

The Prince Hotel

In 1904 the property was owned by the rentier and former furniture manufacturer M. Markiewicz from Königgrätzer Straße, the textile factory had disappeared. Markiewicz then leased the house to the hotelier Heinrich Quitz, who had it completely redesigned into a larger hotel and reopened it as the Prince's Hotel at the end of 1905 / beginning of 1906 . Quitz had previously operated the Hotel Fürstenhof at Leipziger Platz No. 2 from 1899–1905 . Since this hotel building had been bought by the expanding catering company Aschinger and converted into a large luxury hotel, Heinrich Quitz was looking for a new location for his hotel business and found it in the house at Markgrafenstrasse 49. For the hotel he consciously chose the name Fürsten, which is reminiscent of the Hotel Fürstenhof -Hotel . However, the hotel only existed between 1906 and 1909, i.e. around four years. Heinrich Quitz had retired to Schmargendorf from 1911 .

Re-use of the house and the location

From 1911 onwards there were different users of the house: in 1911 and in the following years the A. Markiewicz art dealer and a furniture shop were present there. By 1914, the parcels of Markgrafenstrasse were given a new numbering, the house described here has been number 41 ever since. In the 1930s, the Bank für Auswärtigen Handel AG owned and used the property. In 1943, shortly before the building was destroyed, it was owned by Deutsche Landesrentenbank, which had also acquired the adjacent house at Markgrafenstrasse 40.

The Wilhelmine building from 1884 was destroyed in the Second World War. The property at Markgrafenstraße 41 was rebuilt with a larger residential and commercial building in a modified panel construction after the war rubble had been removed during the GDR era . There have been apartments since the 1990s and the Bistro restaurant on Gendarmenmarkt on the ground floor .

literature

  • Bodo-Michael Baumunk: Grand Hotel. In: The trip to Berlin. Ed. I. A. of the Berlin Senate for the exhibition of the same name, Berlin 1987. P. 192 ff.
  • Wolfgang Bernhagen, Heinz Schlottke: From inn to luxury hotel. A journey through Berlin's hotel history - from the beginning to the present. Published by the general management of the Interhotel DDR, o. O. o. J., 1988.
  • Laurenz Demps : The Gens d'armen market. Face and history of a Berliner Platz. Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 1987. ISBN 3-362-00141-6 .
  • Renate Düttmann: Berlin inns of the 18th and 19th centuries. In: The trip to Berlin. Ed. I. A. of the Berlin Senate for the exhibition of the same name, Berlin 1987. pp. 181–191.
  • Victor Laverrenz: Greetings from Berlin and the surrounding area in pictures and words. Publishing house and printing by Kunstanstalt W. Sommer, Berlin-Schöneberg 1898.
  • Hans-Christian Täubrich: A guest in old Berlin. Memories of the old Berlin hospitality with hotel palaces, entertainment bars, excursion restaurants and distilleries. Verlag Hugendubel 1990. ISBN 3-88034-482-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markgrafenstrasse 49 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1884, Part II, p. 255.
  2. ↑ On the new building of the house cf. Laurenz Demps : The Gens d'armen market. Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 1987, p. 419.
  3. ↑ Markgrafenstrasse 49 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1885, Part II, p. 263.
  4. ↑ Markgrafenstrasse 49 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1904, Part III, p. 455.
  5. ↑ Markgrafenstrasse 49 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1906, Part III, p. 497.
  6. ↑ Quitz, Heinrich. Merchant . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1911, Part I, p. 2295.
  7. ↑ Markgrafenstrasse 49 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1911, Part II, p. 554.
  8. ↑ Markgrafenstrasse 41 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1930, Part II, p. 656.
  9. ↑ Markgrafenstrasse 40, 41 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, Part I, p. 561.
  10. ↑ Markgrafenstrasse 41 with panoramic photos

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '53 "  N , 13 ° 23' 36"  E