Hotel Dutch Court

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Hotel at the Pfaffenteich

The Hotel Dutch Hof building in Schwerin , Paulsstadt district , Alexandrinenstraße 12/13, is a monument in Schwerin .

history

View from the hotel to the Pfaffenteich

In 1901, Hermann Krasemann named his house on Wilhelmstrasse (today the street Zum Bahnhof ) Hotel Dutch Hof , when Duke Heinrich zu Mecklenburg - the youngest son of Grand Duke Friedrich-Franz II - married Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands . This house was built in 1881.

In 1921 Krasemann's hotel moved to today's Alexandrinenstrasse 12/13. The existing four-storey, twelve-axis neoclassical building was therefore converted into a hotel according to plans by Hans Stoffers . The house had elevators, a small library, a fireplace room, fine wallpaper and old chandeliers. The rooms had four-poster beds , running hot and cold water and telephones; Old and modern met. In 1922 Krasemann received the title “Purveyor to the Court of Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness Duke Heinrich zu Mecklenburg”.

The singer Claire Waldoff , the composer Paul Lincke , the actresses Asta Nielsen and Olga Chekhova , the clown Crock , captain Felix Graf von Luckner , the tenor José Carreras and the actor Klaus-Maria Brandauer were guests here. The Krasemann family ran the house until 1970, after which the GDR's publicly owned restaurant and hotel organization . In 1994 the building was privatized and refurbished by 1998, and the neighboring building was added in 2000.

literature

  • Jürgen Borchert: Schwerin as it was. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-0951-7 .

Web links

Commons : Alexandrinenstraße (Schwerin)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Jürgen Borchert: Schwerin as it was. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-0951-7 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 38 ′ 0.5 ″  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 37.9 ″  E