Hotel Drei Mohren (Augsburg)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Drei Mohren GmbH
legal form GmbH
Seat augsburg
management Theodor Gandenheimer
Number of employees over 100
Branch Hotel industry
Website three-mohren-hotel.com

The hotel "Drei Mohren"

The Drei Mohren Hotel is a hotel in Augsburg .

location

The hotel "Drei Mohren" (middle) is separated from the Schaezlerpalais (left) by an alley

The hotel is located on Maximilianstrasse in the middle of Augsburg city center. In the immediate vicinity of the hotel complex are the Fugger houses and - separated by Katharinengasse - the Schaezlerpalais . The Herkulesbrunnen is diagonally opposite the hotel. At the rear of the hotel are restaurant, conference and event rooms as well as parking garages. A terrace on the side of Katharinengasse is used for outdoor dining. The fish fountain there was designed by Max Dellefant in 1956.

description

The current building dates from 1956; The architect was Ulrich Reitmayer, the painterly and sculptural design comes from the Munich architect Max Dellefant. It was rebuilt after the Second World War on the site of the previous building that had been destroyed by bombs. The hotel has 132 rooms, five of which are suites. The hotel has a 360 square meter, oriental-style spa area. There is also an event area of ​​over 1200 m². In 2012 the hotel was completely refurbished in order to remain the first hotel on the square. In terms of culinary delights, the hotel has the Maximilian's restaurant, the Sartory gourmet restaurant , which has been awarded a Michelin star , and the 3M bar .

history

The "Three Moors" look out from the hotel facade

The legend of the three moors

In 1344 a tavern was opened on the Weinmarkt (which is now on Maximilianstrasse). The first overnight guests are said to have been at this location in 1495. According to legendary tradition, an Augsburg man named Minner is said to have given shelter to three dark-skinned monks from Abyssinia . On their journey back to the south they were forced to hibernate in Augsburg during a severe frost period.

The legend tells: Around the year 1495 it happened that dark-skinned travelers could also be seen in the image of the city. Abyssinian monks, four in number, were hosted by the innkeeper Minner for a long time. However, the cold winter caused them to hurriedly march back to the warmer south, whereby one of them had already died on the high field. The innkeeper Minner brought the three survivors back into his house and helped them through the winter. Before she left the next spring, he had her portrait drawn on a board, which he then hung up as a sign for an inn .

From the inn to the palace hotel

The last owner of this inn "Zu den Drei Mohren" was Andreas Wahl from Augsburg. In 1511 an Augsburg patrician from the Herwart dynasty bought a house on Weinmarkt that was next to the urban area of ​​the Fuggers. On June 30, 1575, the Fugger Hans Paul Herwart bought it for 7000  guilders to use it as a guest house . They kept the building until it was partially damaged by fire.

The building complex was redesigned in 1722 and 1723 by Johann Baptist Gunezrhainer , a Munich builder. He furnished the hotel building with a magnificent rococo facade. Three expressive faces peered down from the stuccoed gables of the three balcony doors: the "Drei Mohren" terracottas, which are still preserved today and which are attributed to the Augsburg sculptor Bernhard Bendl, the god of honor. He is said to have created it around 1725.

The house was elegantly furnished. In addition to the guest rooms, there was a dining room, a knight's hall, a room for dancing and a private chapel, which was still used as the "oratorium publicum" until the 19th century, in other words: public masses were also held here. Around 1790, the innkeeper Anton Carl Singer from Innsbruck acquired the hotel. From 1804, the hotelier Johann Georg Deuringer helped the Drei Mohren to become world famous, not only through his guest list, but also through the maintenance of his wine cellar. The Deuringer wine list was regarded as the guide to fine wines.

18 emperors and 38 kings have stayed at the Drei Mohren hotel since it opened, which is why it was considered a royal hostel. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , just two well-known and important artists of their era, also stayed in the Fugger city. With the consequences of the French Revolution around 1800, especially around the middle of the 19th century, times changed for Augsburg and the hotel. Rulers and artists, business leaders and politicians who had to do in Augsburg chose the hotel for their temporary stay. Until 1804 it belonged to the descendants of Wahl. Then the hotelier Johann Georg Deuringer bought the "Drei Mohren" and gave it another world reputation. In 1825 his son took over the management of the house. A major renovation in 1844 made the premises shine in new splendor.

Johann Georg Deuringer's grandson sold the property to a stock corporation in 1874. The hotel was nicknamed the Palace Hotel. From 1875 to 1877, the building was rebuilt once more according to plans by the city councilor Ludwig Leybold . As a result of this renovation, the hotel became an Augsburg landmark with noble furnishings, a glass-roofed atrium in the late classicist style. This naturally attracted illustrious guests. During the renovation, Leybold expanded the Hotel Drei Mohren with a former Fugger building. It was demolished, but the old facade decoration was incorporated into the expanded hotel building. In the years that followed, ownership changed frequently. In 1878 the industrialist Ludwig August Riedinger became the owner of the Drei Mohren by auctioning it.

On February 27, 1929, “Drei Mohren AG” became the owner of the hotel. During the Nazi era, Adolf Hitler stayed at the hotel when he was in Augsburg. On December 28, 1938, Hermann Göring also mentions this hotel as a place for which a “ban on Jews” was to apply.

Destruction and rebuilding

In the Augsburg bomb night of 25 to 26 February 1944, the hotel was badly hit and burned down within two days. Only the facade wall defied the fire. Only the carpets and paintings that were brought to safety earlier remained of the precious furnishings. Although the magnificent facade of the hotel remained largely undamaged, the decision was made to gradually move down the building. In 1947 the Drei Mohren AG took measures to completely rebuild the hotel at its old location.

In September 1951, the façade wall that had been preserved but was thought to be in disrepair was blown up. The final construction plan was drawn up in 1954, construction itself began on February 1, 1955, the topping-out ceremony was held on July 29, 1955 and the opening took place on May 26, 1956. Ulrich Reitmayer was the architect at the time. In the period that followed, the luxury hotel in Augsburg offered 107 rooms with a total of 170 beds. In 1956, all new buildings on the property were completed. The "Drei Mohren AG" subsequently managed the house.

Since 1979

In 1979, "Drei Mohren AG" transferred hotel operations to Steigenberger Hotel AG , which terminated the contract on December 31, 2009 after thirty years. From 2010, the operator was arcona Hotels & Resorts in Rostock, which has a franchising framework agreement with Steigenberger . Drei Mohren AG has had a franchise agreement with Steigenberger Hotels AG since January 1, 2013. Drei Mohren AG, now the Drei Mohren GmbH, is the owner and employer to this day and initiated the all-encompassing core renovation of the house as well as the restoration of the large art collection, which was integrated into the design concept of the entire Drei Mohren .

Hotel Drei Mohren 1878, picture from "Die Gartenlaube"

In 2019 the gourmet restaurant Sartory with kitchen director Simon Lang received a Michelin star . From January 2020, the hotel will be run independently again; the cooperation with Steigenberger ended.

Renaming 2020 in Maximilian's Hotel

The hotel name and logo gave rise to protests critical of racism on several occasions. In the summer of 2018, the Amnesty Jugend Augsburg started a petition to rename the hotel. This generated a lot of media coverage. The Amnesty Jugend Augsburg made the ironic suggestion to rename it "3 carrots".

In August 2020, the planned renaming to Maximilian's Hotel was announced.

Special historical events

  • After taking over the administration in the dissolved imperial city of Augsburg, the Bavarian commission gave a festive dinner in the "Drei Mohren" on the evening of March 4, 1806 . Toasts to a better future and plenty of champagne could not revive the depressed mood of the greats from urban society.
  • At the invitation of Mayor Carron du Val , Friedrich List gave a lecture in the hotel on May 31, 1835 in front of Augsburg merchants about the future prospects of a railway system . As a result, some of them founded an association to create a Munich-Augsburg railway that was to have connections in all four directions. Their shares were quickly subscribed and developed into a profitable speculative object. The opened railway line between the two cities is seen as the starting point for the early industrialization of Augsburg.
  • The ambassadors of the Federal Assembly of the German Confederation , which evaded to Augsburg , occupied the rooms of the hotel "Drei Mohren" on July 14, 1866. The conferences took place in the episcopal residence . The previous day's resolution to dissolve was officially announced in the hotel room on August 24, 1866.

literature

Wikisource: The "Drei Mohren" in Augsburg  - sources and full texts
  • The Hôtel to the Three Moors . In: Johann Christian Wirth: Augsburg as it is . Augsburg 1846, pp. 173–177 ( full text in the Google book search)
  • Karl Haupt: The three Moors in Augsburg. A cultural-historical accompaniment to the new building of the Drei Mohren palace hotel . Augsburg 1956.
  • Gabriele Krist-Krug: Augsburger Palais-Route ( Memento of February 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Open Monument Day 2002). Augsburg: City of Augsburg 2002, pp. 8–11
  • Gregor Nagler: "There are some among them who would stand out in Rome and Genoa". Augsburg town houses in the 18th century. In: Georg Haindl (editor): The art of living. An 18th century Augsburg adhesive album. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-422-07040-0 , pages 30 ff.

Web links

Commons : Hotel Drei Mohren Augsburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ highlights-dreimohren.de: Imprint
  2. ↑ a b c restaurant-ranglisten.de: The Hotel Drei Mohren in Augsburg becomes independent
  3. ↑ schwabenmedia.com: Fischbrunnen ( Memento from August 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ thomas-wiercinski.de: The Hotel Drei Mohren Augsburg
  5. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine of March 24, 2011: Hotel "Drei Mohren" is investing millions in renovation
  6. ↑ hrs.de: Hotel Steigenberger Drei Mohren
  7. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine from January 10, 2012: Hotel opening is delayed again. Retrieved January 30, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Götz von Pölnitz: Jakob Fugger , Volume 2, page 250. ISBN 978-3-16-814572-1 ( limited preview in the Google book search, accessed on March 31, 2011)
  9. ^ Johann Christian Wirth: Augsburg as it is! Page 174 ( limited preview in Google Book Search, accessed on March 31, 2011)
  10. ↑ floerken.eu: Göring's quick letter on the subject of Jews ( memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), requested on March 31, 2011
  11. ↑ www.ahgz.de: arcona short portrait
  12. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine from April 11, 2009: Drei Mohren remains a hotel , queried on March 31, 2011
  13. ↑ Luisa Hagen: From the Three Kings to the Hotel Drei Mohren . In: Homestory Augsburg . June 7, 2015 ( wordpress.com [accessed November 22, 2018]).
  14. ^ Renaming of the hotel "Drei Mohren" in Augsburg - online petition. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Siegfried Zagler: Why the "Drei Mohren" is rightly under criticism. In: The Augsburger Zeitung. August 14, 2018, accessed November 22, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Nina Lenz: Why it is discriminatory to say "Mohr". In: BR - pulse. August 23, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Eva Maria Knab: Dispute over hotel names: University scientist suggests alternatives to "Drei Mohren". Augsburger Allgemeine, September 7, 2018, accessed on November 22, 2018 .
  18. ^ Hotel 3 carrots . In: Augsburg postcolonial . March 20, 2018 ( wordpress.com [accessed November 22, 2018]).
  19. ↑ Florian Fuchs, Olaf Przybilla: Augsburg: "Drei Mohren Hotel" is renamed. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  20. ↑ The Three Moors becomes Maximilian's Hotel. Retrieved August 8, 2020 .
  21. ^ Bernd Roeck : History of Augsburg. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-53197-0 , p. 157.
  22. ^ Frank Möller: Bourgeois rule in Augsburg 1790-1880. Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 978-3-486-83128-3 , p. 141 ( preview in the Google book search).
  23. ↑ Volker Dotter Weich: Keyword Bundestag. ( Memento from December 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Augsburger Stadtlexikon . 2nd Edition. 1998.

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '55.9 "  N , 10 ° 53' 56.3"  E