Grandhotel Pupp

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The Grandhotel Pupp is a luxury hotel in Karlovy Vary . It consists of 228 rooms and is the venue for the annual Karlovy Vary Film Festival .

The Grandhotel Pupp during the film festival
Share over 500 guilders in the Hotel-AG Grand Hotel Pupp on December 31, 1898

history

On the site of today's hotel, an entertainment establishment was first built in 1701 by the Karlovy Vary mayor Deiml at the request of Augustus the Strong , which was named Saxon Hall . The later mayor Andreas Becher had a summer house built on the same property in 1728, which was built at right angles to the Saxon Hall and became known as the Bohemian Hall .

In 1760 the confectioner Johann Georg Pupp (born April 17, 1743 Weltrus , † February 16, 1810 Karlsbad) came to Karlsbad, where he initially worked for the local confectioner Peter Mitterbach. The widow of the former mayor Becher eventually sold a third of the Bohemian Hall to Mitterbach's daughter Franziska, who Pupp married in 1775. Shortly afterwards he became the sole owner of both halls and built the small, very elegant inn Zum Auge Gottes on the same site , which was located on meadow No. 311 . In 1812 the house consisted of two floors, each with five windows facing the street. Around 1830 there was still a music shop in the house. The Gasthof Zum Auge Gottes is today's Café Pupp . The Bohemian Hall was converted into a popular concert and ballroom under Pupp, but the two halls were demolished in November 1892 in order to start building a modern hotel.

Between 1896 and 1907, the buildings on the site were expanded by the Viennese architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer to create a magnificent neo-baroque building that achieved world fame under Julius Pupp (1870–1936).

After the Second World War , the house was nationalized by the government of Czechoslovakia and renamed Grandhotel Moskva in 1950 . In 1989 it was privatized again and extensively restored. Since then it has been called the Grandhotel Pupp again .

The hotel in 1977

Among the famous guests of the hotel was Ludwig van Beethoven , who spent the summer of 1812 there and gave a concert in the Bohemian Hall on August 6th together with the violinist Giovanni Battista Polledro .

The Grandhotel Pupp has been used as a filming location several times, for example in 2006 for the comedy Once Again Holidays with Queen Latifah and in 2006 in the James Bond film Casino Royale as Hotel Splendide in Montenegro . It was also one of the models for the design of the Grand Budapest Hotel in the 2014 film of the same name.

literature

  • August Leopold Stöhr: Kaiser – Karlsbad and this well-known health resort are memorable for spa guests, non-spa guests and Karlsbad itself . 2nd edition Franieck, Karlsbad 1812.
  • The beginnings of the “Pupp” house in Karlsbad . In: Karlsbader historical yearbook , Vol. 2 (1939), pp. 81–85.
  • The old meadow in Goethe's time . In: Karlsbader historical yearbook , Vol. 3 (1940), pp. 73–78.
  • Anton Gnirs : Topography of the historical and art-historical monuments in the district of Karlsbad (Handbook of the Sudeten German Cultural History; Vol. 8). New edition Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-486-56170-7 (reprint of the Prague 1933 edition).

Web links

Commons : Grandhotel Pupp  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Leopold Stöhr, Kaiser Karlsbad and this well-known health place memorabilia, for spa guests, non-spa guests and Karlsbad itself , 2nd edition, Karlsbad 1812, p. 14.
  2. ^ Joseph Ernest Ryba, Karlsbad und seine Mineralquellen , 2nd edition, Karlsbad 1836, p. 225.
  3. ↑ Stanislav Burachovič: The Story of the Grandhotel Pupp .

Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '10 "  N , 12 ° 52' 44"  E