Hotel Kaiserin Augusta
The Hotel Kaiserin Augusta is a hotel in Weimar in a listed building.
history
The house was built in 1867 opposite the town's train station and was expanded in 1889. The tenant at that time named it Hotel Kaiserin Augusta after Augusta , the daughter of Maria Pawlowna and her husband Carl Friedrich von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach . At the turn of the century, the hotel was one of the leading hotels in Weimar. In 1908 it passed from the hands of the tenant Ernst Reinhardt to the Richard Langsdorfs. Under Langsdorf, the house was extended by a south wing and a covered terrace, which today functions as a winter garden. In 1927 it was marketed as the "largest first-rate house in the area". At that time the Hotel Kaiserin Augusta had over a hundred guest beds, a good kitchen and a rich wine list .
The structure was only slightly damaged in the Second World War , which is why it was used as an officer's home in the post-war period - now under the name Augusta . From 1951 it belonged to the HO restaurants and was called Hotel International . In 1991 it was converted into a city and conference hotel. It now had 134 rooms, two restaurants and the usual conference facilities. It was initially run as an InterCity Hotel in cooperation with Steigenberger Hotels . Since 2004 it has been privately run again and bears the name Hotel Kaiserin Augusta again .
Car hotel
Early on, the Hotel Kaiserin Augusta offered guests lockable garages, its own gas station and a car keeper. So it was recommended to a car hotel and by the AvD and the ADAC .
The scene of special events
On September 3, 1933, the HUK Coburg was founded in the Hotel Kaiserin Augusta . The hotel was also the scene of the founding meeting of the FDP Thuringia and the forced unification of the KPD and SPD .
Known guests
Franz Rosenzweig wrote in a letter dated March 25, 1921 that he was staying “in the Hotel Augusta at the train station, bad and right.” Apparently he would have preferred the fully booked Hotel Elephant . In 1949 Thomas Mann stayed in the former Hotel Kaiserin Augusta and attended official appointments there. In 1950 Arnold Zweig lived in the hotel, other well-known guests were Martin Andersen Nexø and Wilhelm Külz .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Gert Heine and Paul Schommer: Thomas Mann Chronik , Klostermann 2004, ISBN 3-465-03235-7 , p. 460 ff.
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 25 ″ N , 11 ° 19 ′ 32 ″ E