Grand Hotel Preanger
The Grand Hotel Preanger is a 5-star hotel and historically "significant Art Deco -building" of the city Bandung in the province of West Java on Java , Indonesia . The architectural style also characterizes the Villa Isola and the Savoy Homann Bidakara , which are also located in Bandung.
The house experienced an upswing from the end of the 18th century, when the Dutch built a road from Batavia through the Preanger Mountains to Cirebon as part of the military armament of the island of Java , in order to be more defensive against the English. The street in front of the hotel was named Grote Postweg and ran around 19 km north of today's city center. Today the street is called Jalan Asia-Africa .
The building was built in colonial times. The facade was built in the classicistic style , next to it horizontal columns and a drum wheel were created, as well as decorations in white.
The hotel's first official name was "Hotel Thieme". From 1897 the hotel was named "the Preanger" after the nearby mountain region. The main building was renovated and expanded in 1929 under the leadership of the Dutch architect, sculptor and painter Charles Prosper Wolff Schoemaker . One of his assistants was the first Indonesian president , Sukarno . Schoemaker was very impressed by the native philosophy of Java, which he translated into his work. Corresponding forms of expression were also found in architecture. He mixed elements of the "Art Deco" with those of the local, functional architecture. In 1998, the “Aerowisata” hotel chain built the current large building, which has ten floors with 189 rooms.
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Coordinates: 6 ° 55 ′ 15.6 ″ S , 107 ° 36 ′ 42.2 ″ E