Herrenkrug Parkhotel on the Elbe
The Herrenkrug Parkhotel on the Elbe is a hotel in Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt . Parts of the building complex, the so-called New Herrenkrug Society House , are under monument protection .
Since January 2018, the hotel has been managed by Dorint GmbH and operated as Dorint Herrenkrug Parkhotel Magdeburg.
location
It is located in the Herrenkrug district in the Herrenkrugpark at Herrenkrug 3 . The Elbe flows a little further west of the hotel . The Herrenkrug-Allee leads to the hotel from the south .
Furnishing
The hotel is operated as a four-star superior hotel and, according to various awards, is one of the best conference hotels in Germany . It has 147 rooms and, in the listed part, an Art Nouveau ballroom and Art Nouveau restaurant with a winter garden and terrace. There is also a SPA with a panoramic swimming pool, bar and beer garden.
Architecture and history
The origins of a gastronomic use in this area go back to the year 1676. That year, the Magdeburg council, which owned the area, built a guard's house here to combat poaching . The building was then mainly used as an inn. At that time the road that passed was the connection from Magdeburg to Burg . Since the inn, initially known as Neuer Krug , was owned by the councilors, the name Herrenkrug was created. Accommodation options have also already been offered. The leaseholder also had to look after a ferry across the Elbe, a dairy and agricultural and forestry uses. This is how cows and sheep were kept.
At the end of the 18th century, the Herrenkrug included three fireplaces, 12.5 acres of fields, 360 acres of meadows and 300 acres of forest with oaks and armor. It has been handed down that from 1791 to 1803 the Oberamtmann Steinkopf, who came from Klein Ottersleben , was a successful tenant who also cultivated 865 fruit trees.
After the French occupation of Magdeburg from 1806, the inn fell into disrepair and was finally demolished in 1813 on the orders of the French governor. It was replaced by a rifle house from the Palatinate Colony . After the withdrawal of the French troops in 1814, the Herrenkrug regained importance. The construction of the Herrenkrugpark, which began in 1818, goes back to the Mayor of Magdeburg, August Wilhelm Francke .
The rifle house was then torn down and replaced in 1843/44 by the old society house , designed in the classicism style , in which many parties and balls were held. The Herrenkrug developed into an important excursion destination for local recreation in the then up-and-coming industrial city of Magdeburg. In 1857 a wooden ice cellar was added for the dairy, in which broken ice was stored to cool dairy products from the Elbe.
In 1886 the tram line connecting Magdeburg's old town with the Herrenkrug was put into operation, which led to a significant increase in visitor numbers. In 1887 a new representative park restaurant, the New Society House, was opened. It was built immediately to the west of the Old Society House and has a ballroom with a large restaurant. The design came from the municipal building department under Otto Peters . Urban planning inspector Emil Jaehn worked on the design . The dairy farm no longer existed. Beer and meat were stored in the now stone ice cellar.
But the new restaurant was soon too small. There were further conversions and expansions of the New Society House, whereby the Wilhelminian style was retained and it was harmoniously integrated into the landscape. In 1904 another ballroom was added. City planning inspector Wilhelm Berner added a pergola to the café hall. A generous complex of long one to two-story brick buildings was created. They have a mezzanine floor and are covered with flat gable and hipped roofs. The architecture is eclectic . There are elements of old German half-timbered architecture , the Swiss house style and neo-baroque . The appearance of the complex is dominated by large window openings with basket arches . In front of the buildings are arcades, terraces, verandas and pergolas, with which the rooms open up to the park landscape. On the cornices and portals there are sometimes elaborately designed stucco decorations and painted ornaments.
The large ballroom is located at the rear of the facility to the north towards the park. It has a half-timbered upper floor and is designed in Art Nouveau style. The halls of the complex are high and light, have wooden ceilings and dominate trusses . On the south side there is the flat front building of the café hall. There are also coach houses .
At its peak, the Herrenkrug had a total of 12,000 seats in the buildings and parks.
After the Second World War , the facility fell into disrepair. Larger parts of the area were used by the Soviet army. The old society house was demolished at the end of the 1950s. The New Society House, however, has largely been preserved in its original form.
In 1990 plans arose to implement a larger hotel project at this location, including the new Herrenkrug listed building. Construction work began in 1992. Hans Krafft and Werner Behrens worked as architects . In a first phase of construction, the historical building fabric was restored at great expense. The ice cellar and the coach house were also included in the facility. Conference rooms were set up in the coach house. The new hotel building has a gross floor area of 7,535.83 m² and a gross volume of 32,548.35 m³.
Financed by 33 shareholders, the Herrenkrug Parkhotel was opened on September 1, 1994. In the literature, the new hotel construction is sometimes judged as an impairment of the cultural monument, although the new use promoted the preservation of the listed part. Others see a loving union. During a visit, Federal President Roman Herzog said that there had been a successful symbiosis of old and new, which is rarely as harmonious as in the Herrenkrug.
The New Herrenkrug Society House is considered to be an important architectural and socio-historical testimony to the representative architecture of restaurants in the early days.
When the Elbe floods in 2002 , the hotel was affected and had to be closed for renovations for four months. In 2006, a flood protection system was set up that was geared to the level of the flood of 2002, which was assessed as the extreme flood of the century, plus 20 centimeters. The 2013 Elbe flood exceeded the 2002 level by 74 centimeters. The hotel was flooded again and there was serious damage. The renovation took nine months. A mobile flood protection system was then purchased, which, if necessary, encloses the hotel in a ring with a circumference of 536 meters and has been available since November 2014. At normal water levels, only the foundation in the ground can be seen on site.
In the local register of monuments , the New Society House Herrenkrug is listed as a monument under registration number 094 82728 .
literature
- Folkhard Cremer in Georg Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments, Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 600.
- Gisela Hoke: Herrenkrug: the development of a Magdeburg landscape park , 1991.
- Sabine Ullrich, Hans Gottschalk in Magdeburg - architecture and urban development , Janos Stekovics publishing house in Halle an der Saale 2001, ISBN 3-929330-33-4 , page 311 f.
- List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 14, State Capital Magdeburg , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , page 302 ff.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monument Directory Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 14, State Capital Magdeburg , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , page 302
- ^ Hans Gottschalk in Magdeburg - architecture and urban development , Janos Stekovics publishing house in Halle an der Saale 2001, ISBN 3-929330-33-4 , page 312
- ↑ Monument Directory Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 14, State Capital Magdeburg , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , page 304
- ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , Magdeburg.pdf, page 2613 f.
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 13 ″ N , 11 ° 40 ′ 46.2 ″ E