Hotel Europaischer Hof (Heidelberg)

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European Court of Heidelberg
city Heidelberg GermanyGermanyGermany 
address Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 1
Website www.europaeischerhof.com
Hotel information
opening 1865
owner The European Court Hotel Europa Heidelberg GmbH
management Caroline von Kretschmann
Sylvia von Kretschmann
Classification 5 star grand hotel
Employee 115 and 46 trainees
Furnishing
room 100 single and double rooms as well as 18 suites
Restaurants 3
Bars 2
Photo of the hotel

Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 29.8 "  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 43.8"  E

The Europäische Hof Heidelberg is a family-run 5-star superior grand hotel , not far from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and Heidelberg Castle .

history

The hotel after it opened

In 1865 Joseph Schrieder opened the Hotel de l'Europe, which he built in Heidelberg city center on the site of the former poor cemetery St. Annen-Kirchhof , which was closed in 1845 . In the following years the hotel changed hands several times and was continuously modernized. At the turn of the 20th century, it already had its own steam power plant for power supply and was one of the most modern of its time. In 1906 Fritz Gabler acquired the hotel and expanded it again extensively. The rooms were given private bathrooms and were heated by central steam heating. In addition, Fritz Gabler had the hotel expanded to include a chauffeur house with twelve garages. Between 1928 and 1929 a side wing was built with 28 rooms, suites and a conference room on the ground floor. In addition, the Hotel Viktoria opposite was acquired.

After the Second World War , the hotels Viktoria, Manheimer Hof and the Hotel Traube in Darmstadt belonging to the Gabler family had to be surrendered. The reason was the destruction in the course of the war or the seizure by occupation troops. Fritz Gabler died in August 1953. In 1955, the Heidelberger Hof , which had been confiscated by the Americans, was returned to his wife Luise Gabler, who reopened it at Easter 1957 after two years of renovation. At the beginning of the 1960s, his grandson Ernst-Friedrich von Kretschmann returned from the USA and took over the management of the hotel together with his wife Sylvia in 1965. Luise Gabler died on December 14, 1981. With the establishment of the hotel operating and leasing company Der Europäische Hof Hotel Europa Heidelberg GmbH on December 20, 1982 Ernst-Friedrich von Kretschmann became sole managing director.

At the turn of the year 2012/2013, Ernst-Friedrich von Kretschmann, after 47 years as managing director, took over the management of the operating and leasing company to his daughter, Dr. Caroline von Kretschmann. Her brother, Oskar von Kretschmann junior, Managing Director at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, is involved in the company's development as a shareholder. Sylvia von Kretschmann, mother of Caroline and Oskar von Kretschmann, is the second managing director on the management of the hotel. Ernst-Friedrich von Kretschmann is available to the management as a consultant.

hotel

The Europäische Hof is a privately run five-star hotel. Around 170 employees look after guests in the hotel's 118 rooms and suites. In the past, celebrities from film, television, sport and music, as well as politicians and writers, came to the Europäische Hof as guests. Around two thirds of the hotel guests come from abroad. The hotel is a cooperation partner of the Heidelberg Spring .

In 1965 and 1966, the side wing of the building was extended by a third floor with 14 hotel rooms and junior suites. In the following year, the heating from coal to oil, the restaurant and the former dance bar were converted into a cocktail bar. In 1975 the building in Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 1 / Sofienstraße 29 was built with office and retail space and a public underground car park (120 parking spaces). Between 1986 and 1988 the building at Sofienstraße 27, the garden building, the addition of a fourth floor to the side wing and the expansion of the public underground car park to 200 parking spaces took place. On October 21, 2000 the wellness and fitness area of ​​the hotel "Panorama Spa und Fitness" opened on the fourth and fifth floors with a swimming pool and roof terrace of 600 square meters. The 200 square meter penthouse suite was completed on July 28, 2006. In 2014, the fourth floor of the Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 1 building with two commercial units and a floor area of ​​500 square meters was converted into four fully furnished apartments for long-term stays by hotel guests and clinic patients.

The hotel includes the fine dining restaurant "Die Kurfürstenstube" - opened in 1866 - the all-day restaurant "Fritz" and the "Europa Bar". The hotel has a spa and fitness area and ten function rooms.

Historical traces

Monument to Alexandru Ioan Cuza

Prominent guests

  • Otto von Bismarck
  • Queen Victoria
  • Richard Strauss
  • Winston Churchill
  • Romy Schneider
  • Thomas Anders
  • Deep Purple
  • Herbert Grönemeyer
  • Haddaway
  • Nina Hagen
  • Janet Jackson
  • Jay-Z
  • Udo Juergens
  • Roland Kaiser
  • Udo Lindenberg
  • Nena
  • Stefan Raab
  • Max Raabe
  • Ed Sheeran
  • Scooter
  • Mario Adorf
  • Mareika Armado
  • Dirk Bach
  • Iris Berben
  • Senta Berger
  • David Hasselhoff
  • Hella out of her mind
  • Anne Will
  • Franka Potente
  • Carl Zuckermayer

Awards

  • Special Award for the life's work of Sylvia and Ernst-Friedrich von Kretschmann (Hotelier of the Year 2006)
  • The economic medal of the state of Baden-Württemberg went to Ernst-Friedrich von Kretschmann (2006)
  • Dr. Caroline von Kretschmann named "Hotel Manager of the Year for Germany" (Der Große Restaurant & Hotel Guide 2017)
  • Dr. Caroline von Kretschmann receives the award "Hotel Manager of the Year" (Certified Star Award 2017)
  • Dr. Caroline von Kretschmann appointed Honorary Senator of Heidelberg University (2018)

literature

  • Ernst G. Jung, Joachim Kirsch: Heidelberg: The city we live in , Waldkirch publishing house, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86476-013-6
  • Tania Bodensiek: The European Court Hotel Europa Heidelberg: 135 years of private hotel tradition
  • Johannes Roethlin: German Grand Hotels - yesterday and today ; Edition Octopus Münster, 2016; ISBN 978-3-95645-663-3
  • Lisa Wieser: Viva la Vita! Conversations at the long table , Edition Vicolo Torre, 2015, ISBN 978-3-9815463-1-6
  • Susanne Fiek: Stories and anecdotes from Heidelberg - Alla hopp! , Wartberg Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8313-2212-1
  • Werner Semmler: The finest Grand Hotels in Europe: European Court in Heidelberg with Ode to Joy: The warmest Grand Hotel in Germany ?, Regionalia , 2019

Movies

  • Interview Dr. Caroline von Kretschmann at SWR 1 people, 2013
  • Der Europäische Hof: Artists Hotel of the Heidelberg Spring, 2017
  • Interview Dr. Caroline von Kretschmann at the Animus Club, 2017
  • Sylvia von Kretschmann and Ernst-Friedrich von Kretschmann in a television interview, 2019
  • SWR TV Weekdays Heroes , 2019

Web links

Commons : Europäische Hof (Heidelberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2016 annual financial statements in the Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ The European Court of Heidelberg
  3. ↑ The St. Anna Cemetery in Heidelberg
  4. ^ A b c Ernst G. Jung, Joachim Kirsch: Heidelberg: The city in which we live . Waldkirch Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86476-013-6 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. ↑ https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/reisen/standard/wo-luxus-in-der-familie-iziert/story/25018042
  6. ↑ https://media.hotelwebservice.com/media/europaeischerhofheidelberg/docs/uebersicht_daten_und_ffekten.pdf
  7. ↑ https://www.europaeischerhof.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/hotel-europaeischer-hof-heidelberg-5-sterne-presse-pressemeldung-13.pdf
  8. ^ Nobles quarters for guest houses all over the world , Stuttgarter Zeitung, January 23, 2015, accessed on January 24, 2018.
  9. ↑ https://www.brittneys.de/hotel-heidelberg/
  10. ↑ http://pregas.de/allgemein/item/der-europaeische-hof-heidelberg-der-kunst-verbunden/
  11. ↑ https://media.hotelwebservice.com/media/europaeischerhofheidelberg/docs/uebersicht_daten_und_ffekten.pdf
  12. ↑ https://www.brittneys.de/hotel-heidelberg/
  13. ↑ https://www.europaeischerhof.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/hotel-europaeischer-hof-heidelberg-5-sterne-presse-pressemeldung-13.pdf
  14. ↑ Cornelia Lohs: Heidelberg - portrait of a city . Gmeiner Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8392-5014-3 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  15. ↑ Statutes for the protection of the area "Alt Heidelberg" as a complete system according to § 19 DSchG . City of Heidelberg, 2003 ( heidelberg.de [PDF]).
  16. ↑ https://www.europaeischerhof.com/gaestebuch-politiker-kuenstler-adel/
  17. ↑ https://www.dfv.de/presse/aktuellemitteilungen/HOTELIER-DES-JAHRES-ausgezeich-930
  18. ↑ https://www.europaeischerhof.com/geschichte-europaeischerhof-heidelberg/
  19. ↑ https://feine-privathotels.de/herzlichen-glueckwunsch/
  20. ↑ https://www.events-magazin.de/eventbranche/certified-star-awards-2018-renommierte-neuzugaenge-auf-der-nominierungsliste/
  21. ↑ https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/presse/news2018/pm20181017_ruperto-carola-laedt-zur-jahresfeier-ein.html
  22. ↑ Regionalia www - Regionalia Germany - European Court in Heidelberg with Ode to Joy: The warmest Grand Hotel in Germany? - Grand Hotels Germany. Retrieved October 31, 2019 .
  23. ^ Hotel manager from the European Court in Heidelberg. Video. In: YouTube. Retrieved November 13, 2019 .
  24. ^ The European Court: artist hotel of the Heidelberger Frühling. Video. In: YouTube. Retrieved November 13, 2019 .
  25. ↑ Dr. Caroline von Kretschmann and the Animus Club. Video. In: YouTube. Retrieved November 13, 2019 .
  26. ↑ King & Queen at the European Court of Heidelberg? Sylvia von Kretschmann and Ernst-Friedrich von Kretschmann in a television interview. Interview u. Portrait. In: Regionalia.de. Retrieved October 31, 2019 .
  27. ↑ We sweeten your stay - hotel luxury in Heidelberg. Video. In: ARD Mediathek. Retrieved October 31, 2019 .