Hotel Kaiserhof (Wuppertal)

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Share of more than 1,000 marks in Kaiserhof Hotel AG on October 1, 1910

The Hotel Kaiserhof in Wuppertal was one of the most renowned hotels in Elberfeld in the first half of the 20th century . Since 2020 it has officially been called Fleming's Express Wuppertal.

history

First construction

Hotel Kaiserhof (first building), right half of the picture
Hotel Kaiserhof (first building), left at the end of the Döppersberger bridge

Not much has been handed down from the first building, which was built before 1870. This three-storey building with a mezzanine floor and a flat hipped roof stood to the east at the end of the Döppersberg bridge in front of the Elberfeld-Döppersberg train station, built in 1848 (today Wuppertal train station). The side facing north towards Elberfeld town center was six-axis, the front side facing the station forecourt was ten-axis. Another axis was in the northwest corner of the building, which was trimmed at a 45-degree angle.

This building was closed in 1912 and replaced by the second building.

Second construction

Hotel Kaiserhof (second building), lower right half of the picture

The representative second building was built in 1911–1912 based on a design by the Cologne architects Helbig & Klöckner . It was built by the Berlin construction company Boswau & Knauer , which also built the Thalia Theater . The hotel complex was directly on the forecourt of the Elberfeld main station ("Bahnhof Döppersberg"), diagonally across from the administration building of the Elberfeld Railway Directorate in the north and the Hotel Europäische Hof in the south (which was not rebuilt after the war), and had the postal address Döppersberg 70– 82 . The architecture with a baroque curved tower dome made reference to the Bergische style . The facade was made of tuff . The window frames , portal frames and other elements were made of shell limestone .

To the south was Brausenwerther Platz , where the Kaiser Wilhelm monument stood until 1937 . Then the square was expanded for traffic reasons.

This building was badly damaged in the air raid on Elberfeld in 1943 , was subsequently rebuilt and provisionally reopened on August 7, 1948. Like many war-damaged houses in the valley, the building was only covered with an emergency roof. The facade was also simplified and not reconstructed in its original form.

Third construction

The InterCityHotel

The federal highway 7 was developed as a Wuppertal traffic axis, with the Döppersberg as a traffic junction. For this purpose, the Hotel Kaiserhof had to be blown up in 1960. A new building was built around 100 meters to the east and opened in 1961.

From 1995 the Kaiserhof officially bears the name InterCityHotel , but the building is still colloquially called Kaiserhof. Side of the facade of the hotel is since October 1982 Kaiser Wilhelm II.-equestrian portrait as a high relief made of bronze mounted.

Projected fourth building

The Döppersberg traffic junction has been completely redesigned since 2009. At the beginning of the project, there were plans according to which the Kaiserhof would be laid down and a glass - clad high - rise building with 20 floors should be rebuilt. The new building would have been the tallest building in the city, but the project was not pursued any further.

Fleming's Express

For 25 years the former Kaiserhof on Döppersberg operated as the "Intercity Hotel". After extensive renovation, Wuppertal's largest hotel opened in January 2020 under the name "Fleming's Express". “Express” is a brand of the international hotel group “Fleming's”, which is aimed at younger audiences.

Web links

Commons : Hotel Kaiserhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Peter Huttel: Wuppertal Photographs: A history book of the 19th century in pictures and text. Born-Verlag , Wuppertal, ISBN 3-87093-007-1
  2. ↑ Mentioned in the tabular curriculum vitae of Hans Jordan ( memento from March 31, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) at www.werner-steinbach.de , last accessed on April 6, 2011 (with typo: “Boswau & K an uer” - cf. Thalia -Theater (Wuppertal) !)
  3. ↑ a b c Hella Nussbaum, Hermann J. Mahlberg (Ed.): The departure around 1900: And the modern in the architecture of the Wuppertal. Evening glow of an era. Müller + Busmann, Wuppertal 2008, ISBN 978-3-928766-87-6 .
  4. ^ A b Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal. Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1991, ISBN 3-87093-057-8 .
  5. ^ Wuppertaler Chronik ( Memento from May 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) by Wolfgang Mondorf, accessed December 2008
  6. ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Thales, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8 .
  7. ↑ Kaiserhof at skyscraperpage.com
  8. ↑ Wuppertaler Rundschau: New name, new look: the former “Kaiserhof” is now “Fleming's Express”. In: wuppertaler-rundschau.de. Wuppertaler Rundschau, accessed on February 29, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '21.3 "  N , 7 ° 9' 6.2"  E