Hotel Atlantic
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| Hotel chain | Kempinski |
| city | Hamburg |
| address | At the Alster 72–79 |
| Website | www.kempinski.com/de/hamburg/hotel-atlantic |
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| opening | 1909 |
| building | is under monument protection |
| owner | Dr. Broermann Hotels & Residences GmbH |
| management | Franco Esposito Stefan Massa |
| Classification | 5 star superior |
| Awards | various |
| Employee | approx. 200 |
| Furnishing | |
| room | 221 |
| Restaurants | 2 |
| Bars | 1 |
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Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 26 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 17 ″ E
The Hotel Atlantic Kempinski in Hamburg was opened in 1909 as a grand hotel for passengers on the Hamburg-America Line . The building has been a listed building since October 4, 2010 . Today the Hotel Atlantic is operated by the Kempinski Group . The building is owned by Octavian Hotel Holding GmbH.
description
The hotel is located directly on Hamburg's Outer Alster and near the main train station . There are 221 rooms and suites, pool, sauna and fitness facilities. The house has a total of 13 function rooms that can accommodate up to 1200 guests. Several regular events take place here every year, for example the Hamburg Press Ball and the Ball Above the Clouds , which has been celebrated in the ballrooms of the Atlantic since 1950.
The musician and painter Udo Lindenberg has been a prominent resident of the “white castle on the Alster” since the 1990s . The adjoining the hotel restaurant Atlantic and a gallery in the hotel are decorated with so-called " liqueur Ellen " Lindesbergs.
Classified as a five-star premium hotel until 2008 , the Atlanic temporarily had no rating. In 2009, the hotel was excluded from the marketing association The Leading Hotels of the World because of the hotel's “poor quality standards” . After extensive renovation measures, the hotel was again awarded the highest rating category five-star superior in 2011 .
The facade was renovated in 2008. The general restoration began in early 2010. In the following 12 to 14 months, a large part of the rooms and suites in the main building were renovated and redesigned as part of a total investment for around 25 million euros. The restoration work on the Wilhelminian style building is taking place in two separate phases, separate from the hotel. The first 140 restored rooms and suites were made available from May 2011.
A detail of the interior design points to the German-British naval arms race in the year it opened: the contours of the continent can be seen on a blue carpet in the stairwell, but those of Great Britain are missing.
Restaurants
There are two restaurants in the Hotel Atlantic Kempinski: the Atlantic Restaurant and the lifestyle restaurant "Atlantic Grill and Health", which focuses on regional and sustainable cuisine. In summer you can also eat and drink in the courtyard.
history
The house was built according to plans by the architects Friedrich Wellermann and Paul Fröhlich and opened on May 2, 1909 after a two-year construction period. The shipowner Albert Ballin was involved in founding the hotel in order to provide adequate accommodation for Hapag's 1st class passengers .
The first restaurant director was the then well-known chef Franz Pfordte , who, together with his first head chef, Alfred Walterspiel , took care of the culinary art in the palace on the Alster. To emphasize the importance of the kitchen, the hotel was given the name "Atlantic - Pfordte", which was affixed in huge letters to a roof grille above the facade.
Between 1945 and 1950 the hotel was used by the British occupying forces as accommodation for officers.
The Hotel Atlantic has been part of the Kempinski hotel group as the operating company since 1957.
In 1997 part of the filming of the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies with Pierce Brosnan took place in the hotel . In 2004, the PrivateMax was the first private cinema to open in a German grand hotel.
The hotel building is owned by Octavian Hotel Holding GmbH. This in turn is part of Octavian King Holdings based in Rotterdam. The company owns several Kempinski hotels in Germany. Real estate billionaire Dieter Bock and former Metro board member Erwin Conradi were or are involved in the company. Dieter Bock suffocated in the Hotel Atlantic in 2010.
Since the end of 2012, the lavishly restored rooms and suites have been presented in four different styles.
literature
- Erich Lüth: The Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg 1909–1984 . Reiner Faber Verlag, Munich 1984.
Web links
- Own web presence
- Cosmopolis.ch - Detailed history of the Atlantic
- Early newspaper articles on the Hotel Atlantic in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ How the Hotel Atlantic attracts new staff . Hamburger Abendblatt issue of September 27, 2018
- ↑ List of monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, as of April 13, 2010 (PDF; 915 kB) ( Memento from June 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 894 kB).
- ↑ Gisela Reiners: Choking at dinner: "Atlantic" owner dies in his own hotel . In: THE WORLD . May 26, 2010 ( welt.de [accessed August 15, 2020]).
- ↑ Ralf Wiegand: Heaven without stars . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 19, 2008.
- ↑ Leading throws out Atlantic Hamburg and Bristol Berlin . In: Top-Hotel from June 26, 2009, ISSN 0937-2474 .
- ^ "Atlantic" has five stars back , n-tv from September 15, 2011
- ^ SPON on the restoration of the Atlantic Hotel, May 4th 2011
- ^ A b Charlotte Frank: Hanseatic in the best sense. sueddeutsche.de from September 2, 2012 , accessed on September 2, 2012
- ↑ Legends of culinary art: Franz Pfordte (history, recipes, menu cards)
- ↑ Gisela Reiners: Choking at dinner: "Atlantic" owner dies in his own hotel . In: THE WORLD . May 26, 2010 ( welt.de [accessed August 15, 2020]).