Hotel Ardealul

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Hotel Ardealul, 2011

The Hotel Ardealul (also Hotel zum Weißen Kreuz , Romanian Hotelul Crucea Albă ) is a listed building in the 1st district Centru of the Romanian city of Arad . It's right next to the State Theater.

history

As early as the 18th century, the White Cross Inn was on the site where the hotel is today . The post office , which was located in front of the hostel on the Vienna – Arad – Hermannstadt route , gave it its name. After the introduction of the Arad - Alba Iulia railway line in 1868, the post office was closed and the Hotel zum Weißen Kreuz opened.

In the Hotel Ardealul, the Romanian Cultural Association Arad , a society for the promotion of Romanian literature and culture, was founded in 1863 under the influence of the Romanian emancipation movement in Transylvania , with aims similar to the ASTRA in Sibiu (1861). In 1872, 300 top Romanian politicians met in the hotel's ballroom under the direction of Alexandru Mocioni , with the aim of founding a political organization for Romanians from Western Transylvania.

The hotel had a large festival and concert hall (now the Mureșul cinema ), in which over the years famous musicians such as Franz Liszt (1846), Johann Strauss (son) (1847), Johannes Brahms (1879) and the violin player Pablo Casals (1912) gave concerts. The hotel's original piano is located in the Arad City Palace of Culture . The hotel has hosted numerous famous people over the years, such as Emperors Franz Josef , Ady Endre , Jules Massenet and János Arany , George Coșbuc , Ion Luca Caragiale , Octavian Goga , George Enescu .

description

The Hotel Ardealul was built in 1841 in neoclassical style according to the plans of the architect Franz Mahler and extensively renovated in 1974. It has 190 beds and has a casino , an exchange office , a disco and an in-house restaurant with 80 seats.

Individual evidence

  1. a b welcometoromania.ro , Hotel Ardealul.
  2. a b rumaenien-info.at ( memento of the original from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Arad - The city on the Mureș bank.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rumaenien-info.at
  3. primariaarad.ro , Primăria Municipiului Arad.
  4. hotelardealul.ro ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Hotel Ardealul.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hotelardealul.ro

Coordinates: 46 ° 17 '15 "  N , 21 ° 31' 45.5"  E