Hotel Furstenhof (Leipzig)
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1889 |
| Seat | Leipzig |
| management | Vicus Group AG |
| Number of employees | > 60 |
| Branch | Hotel industry |
| Website | www.hotelfuerstenhof-leipzig.com |
The Hotel Fürstenhof is the oldest luxury hotel in Leipzig . The original building of Löhrs Haus at today's Tröndlinring 8 dates back to 1771, since 1890 it has been operated as a hotel - combined with several conversions and extensions. The hotel has been owned by the Vicus Group AG since 2018 and is also a member of the Leipzig Hotel Alliance .
history
In 1770/1771, the Leipzig banker Eberhard Heinrich Löhr had Johann Carl Friedrich Dauthe build a classicist city palace as a residential building north of the old town and diagonally opposite the Old Theater , and the Löhr's garden , which was generously laid out based on the English model , was built on the property behind . Until 1886, the house and the garden, which had been largely destroyed during the Battle of Nations, were owned by the Löhr family and their descendants, Keil. The last private owner from the family, Adolph Keil, had a dining room built on the first floor in 1865, which was almost completely lined with Zöblitzer serpentine , the so-called Saxon marble . The architect Moritz Münch was responsible for the renovation; The room is likely to be the only one of its kind in the world.
After Adolph Keil sold parts of the garden in 1870, the entire area was bought by the Leipzig real estate company in 1886 . A large part of the garden reaching as far as the Parthe was parceled out and rebuilt.
History 1890-1945
In 1889/1890 the city palace was converted into a hotel under the architect Franz Hannemann, the floor plan with inner courtyard of the Löhrschen house was preserved except for a smaller extension. A renaissance facade was placed in front of the house here , which remained until 1912. The operator of the hotel changed several times between 1890 and 1911, and from 1911 the house rose to one of the top hotel addresses in Leipzig under the owner Armin Fischer-Brill. In 1912/1913, the building was extensively rebuilt and expanded in Art Nouveau style by the Taucha architect Hermann Günther, and on October 18, 1913, it was reopened under the new owner Mathias Erwig on the centenary of the Battle of the Nations. The house was raised and extended by a new wing in the direction of the inner courtyard to Löhrstrasse, the serpentine dining room was moved to the ground floor. This gave the building its present-day area. In the first half of the 20th century it developed into one of the leading hotels in the German Empire , offering accommodation to numerous celebrities and respected trade fair guests. At that time, the hotel had 140 rooms (80 of which were inside and 40 with private bathrooms), all of which were equipped with running hot and cold water and telephones . In addition, several suites , called private apartments , were available to the guests. A modern ventilation system was installed in the entire interior, guests could regulate the fresh air supply in terms of temperature in the individual rooms and, if desired, choose from eight different scents . The Fürstenhof café was established on the left-hand side of the first floor, and the Leipzig wine halls were on the right-hand side .
From 1940 Jewish citizens of Leipzig found shelter in the hotel from attacks by the National Socialists .
History 1945 to today
After Leipzig was occupied by the 3rd US Army in April 1945, the building initially served as the local headquarters of the US armed forces . A short time later it was reopened as a hotel, after Erwig's expropriation in 1949 it was renamed Hotel International . Initially it belonged to Intourist for a few years , then to HO , and from 1965 as a hotel to the Interhotel Group . Until it was temporarily closed on December 20, 1990, the Fürstenhof was considered one of the most renowned hotels in Leipzig and the GDR . Jürgen Schneider acquired the hotel in February 1991 and continued to run it until July 31, 1992. In 1993, the Munich real estate company Plottos took over the hotel, which renovated and expanded the building between 1993 and 1996, including renovations and demolitions.
In 1996 the house was reopened as a 5-star superior hotel and handed over to the Kempinski hotel group . At the time, the house was the smallest hotel in the group. Until 2000 it was called the Hotel Fürstenhof Kempinski Leipzig . In 2000, Starwood , a subsidiary of Marriott International , took over the hotel and has since operated it under the brand The Luxury Collection with its previous name Hotel Fürstenhof, Leipzig . In 2014 the hotel celebrated its 125th anniversary. The hotel has been owned by the Leipzig-based Vicus Group AG, which specializes in commercial real estate , since October 2018 .
The previous renovations are in the tradition of the hotel, suites and halls of the house are based on historical models and local events.
literature
- Eva-Maria Hoyer: The Serpentine Hall in the Hotel “International”. In: Leipziger Blätter . 9, 1986, ISSN 0232-7244 , pp. 71-73.
- Regina Hoffmann, Heinz Liebing: A century of hospitality. 100 years of Hotel International Leipzig. Ed .: Interhotel DDR, Leipzig 1988, DNB 944539408 .
- Ulla Heise : Hotel Fürstenhof. On the history of Löhr's house. In: Leipziger Blätter. 28, 1996, ISSN 0232-7244 , pp. 57-60.
- Kempinski Hotel Fürstenhof Leipzig (Ed.): 110 years Hotel Fürstenhof in Leipzig. Leipzig 1999, DNB 958486840 .
- Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig. Architecture from the Romanesque to the present. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 , p. 131.
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 40.8 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 22.1 ″ E
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulla Heise: Hotel Fürstenhof. On the history of Löhr's house. 1996, pp. 58-59.
- ^ Hotel Fürstenhof Leipzig. In: Leipzig Hotel Alliance. Retrieved October 17, 2018 .
- ^ Albrecht Kurzwelly : Dauthe, Johann Carl Friedrich . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 8 : Coutan-Delattre . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 442-444 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Ulla Heise: Hotel Fürstenhof. On the history of Löhr's house. 1996, p. 58.
- ^ Eva-Maria Hoyer: The Serpentine Hall in the Hotel "International". 1986, p. 71.
- ↑ a b c d Ulla Heise: Hotel Fürstenhof. On the history of Löhr's house. 1996, p. 59.
- ^ A b Regina Hoffmann, Heinz Liebing: A century of hospitality. 100 years of Hotel International Leipzig. 1988, p. 9.
- ^ Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 . Keyword: Hotel Fürstenhof.
- ↑ 110 years of the Hotel Fürstenhof in Leipzig 1999, p. 42 f.
- ^ Regina Hoffmann, Heinz Liebing: A century of hospitality. 100 years of Hotel International Leipzig. 1988, p. 6.
- ↑ 110 years of the Hotel Fürstenhof in Leipzig 1999, p. 50.
- ↑ a b Ulla Heise: Hotel Fürstenhof. On the history of Löhr's house. 1996, p. 60.
- ↑ Leipziger Hotel Fürstenhof has a new owner. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. October 16, 2016, accessed on October 17, 2016 (also printed under the title Der Fürstenhof has a new owner. Vicus Group AG acquires five-star hotel in Leipziger Volkszeitung No. 242 of October 17, 2016, p. 15) .