Hotel Berolina
The Hotel Berolina was a hotel on Berlin's Karl-Marx-Allee . It existed from 1963 to 1996 and was set back from the street front behind the Kino International .
History and architecture
The hotel was built from 1961 to 1963 as part of the second construction phase on Karl-Marx-Allee based on a design by Josef Kaiser , Günter Kunert and Kollektiv.
The 13-storey building had 375 rooms, a hotel restaurant with 200 seats, a special restaurant in the basement , a café on the top floor as well as social and conference rooms. The house stood between Weydemeyerstrasse and Berolinastrasse . It was not actually on Karl-Marx-Allee, but - just like the current building at the same location - had the address Karl-Marx-Allee 31 .
While the building was designed as a monolithic construction up to and including the first floor , the upper floors were constructed using large-plate construction . The protruding hotel lobby and the hotel entrance with the covered driveway were designed as a large-area glazed steel structure. There was a sales area at the rear of the building. The facade of the hotel was clad with travertine tiles on the first and second floors and with blue ceramic tiles on the other upper floors.
The Hotel Berolina was opened in 1964 as an HO hotel . In 1965 the Interhotel Association took over the hotel. In 1990 Interhotel was converted into Interhotel AG , which initially continued to operate the Hotel Berolina . The hotel was closed on December 31, 1995, and the listed building was demolished in 1996 . The new owner, the Estonian Trigon group of companies , had a 14-storey high-rise built on the same spot from 1996 to 1998 , based on designs by the architects Bassenge, Heinrich, Puhan-Schulz . The architecture of the new building is based on the previous hotel and is now home to Berlin's City Hall .
Hotel Berolina under construction; before that the Kino International , shortly before the opening (1963)
Hotel Berolina in the background; before that the International and the Mokka-Milch-Eisbar (1964)
Town hall center on the site of the former Hotel Berolina (2005)
There are currently several hotels and restaurants in and around Berlin that bear the name Berolina , but are not related to the hotel described here.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 16 ″ N , 13 ° 25 ′ 24 ″ E