Hotel Bellevue (Berlin)

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Grand-Hotel Bellevue on Potsdamer Platz , 1903
Hotel Bellevue with its similarly designed neighboring building, the Palast Hotel .
Photochromic print around 1900.

The Hotel Bellevue was the first grand hotel on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin at the end of the 19th century.

history

The five-story building stood on the property at Potsdamer Platz 1 on the southern tip of the Lenné triangle between Bellevuestrasse and Königgrätzer Strasse, today's Ebertstrasse . It was built according to plans by the architect Ludwig Heim and opened around 1884/85. At first it was called the Hôtel du Parc , later it was also known as the Thiergarten Hotel .

With its architecture based on international models, it rang in the era of the magnificent buildings on Potsdamer Platz. Together with the palace hotel opposite - also designed by Ludwig Heim - and the luxurious Hotel Fürstenhof , it belonged to Aschinger  AG at the beginning of the 20th century . As early as 1928, the hotel was demolished to make way for the Columbushaus building . Today the place where the Hotel Bellevue once stood is vacant. Immediately behind it is the Beisheim Center , which was inaugurated on January 10, 2004 .

As the Hôtel du Parc , the house is one of the settings in the novel Cécile by Theodor Fontane , who himself lived not far away at Potsdamer Straße  134c (from 1938: No. 15) from 1872 until his death in 1898 . The house with Fontane's apartment was demolished in 1906.

  • Menu card from 1907

  • Demolition of the hotel, 1928

Web links

Commons : Grand Hotel Belle Vue (Berlin)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor Fontane : Works, Writings, Letters , Volume 2, ed. by Walter Keitel and Helmuth Nürnberger . Hanser, 3rd edition 1972, ISBN 3-446-11429-7 , p. 900.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '36 "  N , 13 ° 22' 34"  E