Hotel Königshof (Munich)

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Former Hotel Königshof (2010), demolition in 2019

The Hotel Königshof was a luxury hotel on the Stachus in Munich . It was part of the Geisel Privathotels and The Leading Hotels of the World hotel groups . The hotel's restaurant had a Michelin star . Martin Fauster was the head chef from 2004 to 2018 .

The hotel was demolished in 2019 and will be rebuilt by 2021.

location

The hotel was located in the Ludwigsvorstadt district on the west side of Karlsplatz ( Stachus ). Originally, a roundabout was also planned on the west side of Karlsplatz as on the east side, but it was not implemented. The hotel was at the apex of the planned semicircle opposite the Karlstor .

history

Vorherrhaus on Karlsplatz around 1820
Hotel Königshof (right, around 1900)

The property on which the hotel was located was given to the architect Gustav Vorherr at the beginning of the 19th century for his services to the city expansion from King Max I Joseph . He built a private house there. The building, kept in the classical style, served as a meeting point for a literary group who was called to Munich by Maximilian I. Joseph . Among the guests were writers such as Paul Heyse , Emanuel Geibel , Friedrich Bodenstedt as well as the art historian and poet Adolf Friedrich von Schack , director of the court theater Franz von Dingelstedt and Franz von Kobell .

The Hotel Bellevue was built in 1866 from this private house, centrally located between the old town and the main train station . In 1880 the expansion and renovation followed, u. a. the house received the distinctive double gables to the Stachus and the magnificent facade painting by Claudius Schraudolph the Elder . After the outbreak of the First World War, the hotel was renamed Hotel Königshof .

In 1938 the house, which then had 200 beds, was taken over by Karl and Anna Geisel and has been owned by the Geisel family ever since. Both were once the beer taverns of the Löwenbräuzelt at the Munich Oktoberfest and owned several wine taverns . In 1944, the Hotel Königshof was destroyed except for the outer walls during the Second World War .

Reconstruction in 1955

After the severe war damage, the Geisel family opted for a contemporary reconstruction, which was completed in 1955. A general renovation followed in 1970, during which the building was given the appearance it had known until its demolition in 2019. Since a relatively large amount of the original substance had survived the war times, but the appearance of the building was massively changed after the war, the building was not registered as a monument in the Bavarian list of monuments, but was nevertheless included in the monument topography Monuments in Bavaria due to its historical importance .

New building 2019

Demolition (2019)

In 2012 plans became known to demolish and rebuild the building, which dates from 1880 and 1913. The demolition took place in 2019.

The design for the new building, which is to be built by 2021, comes from the Spanish architects Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano . It consists of a nine-story building with a curtain-type glass facade and an expressionist cubature.

Furnishing

The hotel offered 71 single and double rooms, 16 suites , 180 underground parking spaces, a wellness area (sauna, steam bath, whirlpool and fitness room).

The hotel was home to the Königshof gourmet restaurant , which was recently awarded a Michelin star by the Michelin Guide and 18 out of 20 points by the Gault Millau restaurant guide under Martin Fauster .

Awards

The hotel received the following awards, among others:

literature

  • Heinrich Habel, Johannes Hallinger, Timm Weski: State capital Munich . Center. In: Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (Hrsg.): Monuments in Bavaria - independent cities and districts . tape I.2 / 1 . Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87490-586-2 , p. 371 .
  • Susanna Lajtos: In luxurious beds . Ed .: Allitera Verlag. Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86906-099-6 , pp. 127 .

Web links

Commons : Hotel Königshof (Munich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Construction progress. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c image brochure. (PDF; 5.5 MB) (No longer available online.) Geisel Privathotels , July 5, 2012, archived from the original on June 26, 2013 ; accessed on August 25, 2012 (details on the location, history and furnishings of the hotel).
  3. ↑ 2015 demolition and new construction planned
  4. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: nine-story exclamation mark

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 22.7 "  N , 11 ° 33 ′ 52.2"  E