Hotel Dajti

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The dilapidated hotel on the main boulevard hidden behind trees (2006)

The Hotel Dajti in Tirana has long been considered the best hotel in Albania . The house, which is now closed, is located in the city center directly on the main boulevard and is named after Tirana's local mountain, Dajti . The early 1940s by Italian architect Gherardo Bosio , head of the Central Building and Urbanistikamts of Tirana, planned building falls by the generous and eclecticism of fascist architecture embossed cubic architecture today. Parts of the furnishings come from the famous Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti . When it opened in April 1942, Bosio had already died. At that time the hotel was considered one of the best hotels in the entire Balkans . It has been listed as a cultural monument since 2007 .

history

The hotel was built as part of a redesign of the Albanian capital by the Italians under the direction of Gherardo Bosio. At that time - based on the original idea of Armando Brasini - Tirana's grand boulevard Bulevardi Dëshmorët e Kombit with many government buildings was built. After the Second World War , the building served as the seat of the communist government for a short time . For a long time it was the only hotel in Tirana for foreign guests. From the 1970s the Hotel Dajti was only reserved for state guests and business travelers - tourists had to stay at the Hotel Tirana . The Hotel Dajti was henceforth regarded as the best house in the country. The hotel bar was a well-known and regular setting for individual scenes in literary works from Albania.

"It also housed the best restaurant and a legendary night bar, where the manageable number of local diplomats liked to exchange rumors [...]."

- Christiane Jaenicke : Albania - a country portrait

When the Federal Republic of Germany established diplomatic relations with Albania as the last country in Europe in 1987 and an embassy building had to be newly built, the German embassy was temporarily housed in a suite in the Dajti Hotel; the ambassador and some of his employees stayed in neighboring hotel rooms.

Even after the collapse of the communist system, the hotel remained state-owned. Due to a lack of investment and new competition from 1995, the house quickly lost its importance. Several attempts to sell the hotel failed. In 2002 the hotel was closed. The destroyed house was occasionally used for art exhibitions. In 2010 the Albanian central bank Banka e Shqipërisë bought the building for € 30 million. The bank used the building while its headquarters on Skanderbeg Square was being restored. After the headquarters had been rebuilt, the bank announced in early 2015 that it would soon restore the building of the former hotel. Around € 18 million was made available for this.

Building description

Entrance to the closed hotel (2009)

A large ballroom was located on the first floor, next to the entrance hall and the bar. On the side facing away from the street there is a terrace and a small, quiet garden. There are around 85 guest rooms on the three upper floors - all with balconies. In terms of structure and style, the upper floors are kept much simpler than the magnificent, marble-clad ground floor, which is explained by the dwindling funds during the war years.

“While the elevated basement with its vertical window strips and block-like, massive, profiled travertine frames is still completely under the spell of tradition [of fascist architecture], the recessed, three-story upper floor area dissolves into a grid of vertical and horizontal panes. The patio doors are frameless cut into the recessed wall. The emphasis on the upper end in the slightly protruding roof pane is still conventional. "

- Sepp is calling from the provinces

In addition to the front facing the street, the building has an L-shaped extension on the back. The total area of ​​the house is 2000 square meters.

literature

  • Rossana Carullo: Dalla monumentalità urbana all'internità architettonica. Gerarchy compositive nell'architettura dell'Hotel Dajti di Gherardo Bosio a Tirana . Atti del Convegno Scientifico, December 12th 2014, Università Politecnica di Tirana. In: Frida Pashako, Maddalena Pessina, Armand Vokshi (eds.): L'interpretazione dello spazio urbano e architettonico dell'asse strutturante di Tirana . Edifir-Edizioni, Florence 2017, ISBN 978-88-7970-868-5 , pp. 85-98 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Artan Shkreli: 25 years of urban planning in Tirana from 1916–1941 . In: Adolph Stiller (Hrsg.): Tirana Planen Bauen Leben . Architecture in the Ringturm XXII. Müry Salzmann Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-99014-030-7 .
  2. ↑ a b Besnik Aliaj, Keida Lulo, Genc Myftiu: Tirana - The Challenge of Urban Development . Tirana 2003, ISBN 99927-880-0-3 .
  3. ^ A b Tirana - State Architecture. In: Sepp Ruft December 09 , 2009, accessed on August 14, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Katia Accossato: Tirana: from form to non-form . In: Adolph Stiller (Hrsg.): Tirana Planen Bauen Leben . Architecture in the Ringturm XXII. Müry Salzmann Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-99014-030-7 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Ben Andoni, Artan Lame: Shembja e një idhulli. (No longer available online.) In: Revista Mapo. October 11, 2009, archived from the original on January 21, 2015 ; Retrieved August 16, 2010 (Albanian). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / revistamapo.com
  6. ↑ Politecnico di Bari - Facoltà di Architettura: Progettazione dell'architettura degli interni per la riqualificazione dell'hotel Dajti di Tirana. Archived from the original on May 28, 2011 ; Retrieved May 16, 2010 .
  7. ↑ Lista e monumenteve - Rrethi i Tiranës. (PDF) In: Instituti i Monumenteve të Kulturës. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  8. ↑ a b AP: Tirana's Hotel Dajti sold to Bank of Albania. In: Boston.com. May 13, 2010, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  9. ^ Heinz Gstrein : Albania . Walter-Verlag, Olten 1989, ISBN 3-530-29602-3 .
  10. ^ Christiane Jaenicke: Albania. A country portrait . Ch.links, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-96289-043-8 , pp. 135 .
  11. ↑ Werner Bartels: The beginnings of the German Embassy Tirana. Foreign Office , archived from the original on March 22, 2011 ; accessed on May 3, 2013 (PDF file, 9.65 kB).
  12. ^ Gerd Höhler : Hotel for Hodscha's guests is sold . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . April 11, 2005.
  13. ↑ Tirana International Contemporary Art Biannual. Retrieved May 15, 2010 .
  14. ↑ Jorn Ebner: Tirana stages art and commerce. In: Cafébabel. Retrieved May 15, 2010 .
  15. ↑ Life again in the Hotel Dajti. Retrieved May 15, 2010 .
  16. ^ Former Dajti Hotel Building. In: Banka e Shqipërisë. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  17. ^ Bank of Albania staff moves into the new premises of the bank. Press release. In: Bank of Albania. January 13, 2015, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  18. ^ Note to public: On the Reconstruction of the former Hotel Dajti building. Press release. In: Bank of Albania. June 13, 2017, accessed April 18, 2019 .

Coordinates: 41 ° 19 ′ 29 ″  N , 19 ° 49 ′ 11 ″  E