Hotel Hauffe

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The Hotel Hauffe on the Promenadenring

The Hotel Hauffe was in the 19th and 20th centuries over 70 years one of the leading hotels in Leipzig .

Location and shape

The hotel was at the corner from Roßstrasse to Roßplatz , its address was Roßstrasse 15. Today the place corresponds roughly to the passage through the ring development to Auguste-Schmidt-Strasse, the former Roßstrasse. It was therefore convenient to the city center, but also to the parks of the Promenade Ring.

The house had four floors with 19 window axes to Roßstrasse and five to Roßplatz. Twelve axes to Roßstrasse still had a basement , and the top floor was fully developed for staff accommodation.

history

The Hotel Hauffe was built in 1869. It had over 100 rooms, salons and function rooms as well as restaurants.

In an advertising leaflet around 1900 it says:

Its facilities are state-of-the-art and provide the most conceivable comfort to the foreign world that is frequented here. ... Not at least it is chosen to visit the highest circles. ... The elegance of the practical goes through all the rooms of this hotel, which is exemplary in its management; it finds its expression in the large salons on the various floors as well as in the row of individual rooms and extends to the downright captivating bathrooms that the hotel has .

The presence of numerous well-known personalities in the Hauffe can be proven. In the winter of 1888, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky stayed here. During his visit, Johannes Brahms had a grand piano placed in his room. The presence of Eugen d'Albert is evidenced by an autograph from October 29, 1900 on a sheet of letterhead with the house's letterhead. Max Reger studied various compositions in the Hotel Hauffe on the evening of his death. And Richard Wagner was here too.

In March 1898 Gerhart Hauptmann also stayed at the Hotel Hauffe. Karl May also visited, but only when he was a renowned writer. It was here in mid-August 1902 that his first marriage fell apart. In addition, the Hauffe was also Adolf Hitler's main establishment in Leipzig until the 1930s .

The Hotel Hauffe had a world premiere. On August 5, 1891, the world's first American Express Travelers Check was paid out at the Hotel Hauffe. It was redeemed by William C. Fargo, the nephew of William G. Fargo , one of the three founders of the American Express Company .

In 1940 the hotel was closed and the administration of the administrative district of Leipzig moved in. The building was destroyed in the bombing raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943 . With the construction of the ring development from 1953 to 1956, the area was built over.

  • The Hotel Hauffe around 1900

  • The Roßplatz with the hotel

  • The hotel lobby

  • One of the restaurants

  • Autograph by Eugen d'Albert on hotel stationery

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Karl May Wiki
  2. ^ City History Museum Leipzig Inv. No. S 645/2002/18
  3. ^ Leipziger Internetzeitung, April 30, 2012
  4. ^ Peter Schmitz: Johannes Brahms and the Leipziger Musikverlag Breitkopf & Härtel , V&R unipress, 2009 p. 159
  5. ↑ d'Albert autograph
  6. ↑ Oberpfalznetz.de of July 17, 2009 (page 3)
  7. ^ Carl Friedrich Glasenapp : The Life of Richard Wagner , Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1905. p. 425 (online at Zeno)
  8. ^ "Aryanization" in Leipzig
  9. ↑ Patrick Robertson, What was the first time and when? , 1977, Vienna, Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, ISBN 978-3800031429 , p. 192
  10. ↑ Leipzig Lexicon

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 9 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 52 ″  E