Hotel Panorama
| Hotel Panorama | |
|---|---|
| Hotel chain | Ahorn Hotels & Resorts Group |
| city | 98559 Oberhof |
| address | Dr. Theodor-Neubauer-Strasse 29 |
| Website | www.ahorn-hotels.de/hotel/ahorn-panorama-hotel-oberhof/ |
| Hotel information | |
| opening | 7th October 1969 |
| management | Michael Bob |
| Classification | 3 |
| Furnishing | |
| room | 488 |
| Restaurants | 2 |
| Bars | 2 |
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Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 43.5 ″ N , 10 ° 43 ′ 22.5 ″ E The Hotel Panorama was built in 1969 in Oberhof in the Thuringian Forest as an Interhotel of the GDR . The planning in the form of two ski jumps came from Yugoslav architects . After the reunification , the Interhotel became the TREFF Hotel Panorama ; Since the end of 2018 it has belonged to the Ahorn Hotels & Resorts Group. The building complex is a listed building .
history
The construction of the hotel was preceded by Walter Ulbricht's vision to create an established winter sports resort out of the small, until then rather insignificant town of Oberhof, which was also nicknamed “St. Moritz des Ostens” due to its luxury. As early as November 1950, the owners of private pensions and hotels were expropriated for this purpose. The site was upgraded through the construction of oversized hotel buildings (such as the Rennsteig holiday home, demolished in 2002) as well as buildings for the winter sports infrastructure for mass processing of GDR holidaymakers, such as the large ski jumping facility in Kanzlersgrund and the luge track that went into operation in the early 1970s Oberhof .
The hotel complex , built from 1967 to 1969, was built by the Yugoslav construction company Krešimir Martinković and collective.
The Hotel Panorama opened on October 7, 1969 and closed again only a short time later because the wind conditions at 825 meters had been underestimated and the construction of the roof had to be improved. With more than 900 beds, it was considered the largest holiday hotel in Europe. Seven restaurants, numerous leisure facilities such as a swimming pool and a mini golf course belonged to the hotel. As a reminiscence of the work of the architects and construction workers, a Balkan restaurant was set up. Since one of the seventy hotel chefs had previously worked in Japan , it was one of the first Japanese restaurants in the GDR.
The entertainment show Oberhofer farmer's market of the television of the GDR took place in the fireplace hall of the hotel originated and was produced there from 1974 to 1977. During the time of the GDR, the hotel was used regularly by the Free German Trade Union Federation .
In 1993 a German hotel chain took over the Panoramahotel and built new buildings such as the Waldmarie disco and a large event hall for up to 600 people. A change of ownership followed on December 4, 2018.
architecture
The 56-meter-high Hotel Panorama, which is almost at the highest point of Oberhof, consists of two almost identical main buildings, the longitudinal section of which is triangular. The west building has its sloping roof oriented to the north, which is reminiscent of the downhill ramp of a ski jumping hill due to the straight continuation of the lower triangular edge. The roof of the eastern building is accordingly oriented to the south . The two main buildings are eleven and twelve storeys high.
To bridge the uneven terrain, a massive square base structure connects the two main buildings, which rest on this base structure towards the middle and rest on the concrete base in the protruding part via a stilt construction. Another eight-storey structure rises on the south side of the base building , which stands at right angles to the west building and is connected to it via a vertical supply wing.
Bruno Flierl , who was an architecture critic during the GDR era, described the building as one of the first in the GDR to be built in the sense of pictorial architecture due to its ski jumping hill motif. He even put the building in a row with the Brussels Atomium . The architect Ulrich Wieler described the building a little later than its construction in 2007, which hardly speaks of a statement against the “architecture of the glass box”. The architectural intent is not aimed at a faceless city silhouette that lacks active carriers of meaning, but is directed towards the surrounding landscape. As a result, the Hotel Panorama should not necessarily be seen as a successful example of an international design input in the architecture of hotel buildings, although this was the claim of the GDR regime at the time.
Hotel operations
The three-star hotel has 488 rooms on twelve floors; it is the highest hotel in Thuringia . The gastronomy in the house includes a bar , a buffet restaurant , a beer garden and an à la carte - Restaurant . In the reign of Honecker (in contrast to the Ulbricht era) the company was more geared towards broad sections of the population.
reception
The sandman on GDR television addressed the hotel building in several episodes. In one episode from 1973 he drove to the hotel in a propeller sled. Another episode from the same year shows the hotel porter skiing down the roof of the hotel and the sandman using the roof as a landing strip for his aircraft.
The folk singing duo Waltraut Schulz and Herbert Roth released four songs in 1984 on a 7-inch record entitled Hotel Panorama Oberhof . The cover picture of the record, which was published by the record label Amiga , showed the hotel complex viewed from the direction of the forest.
A 300-piece jigsaw puzzle in the format 40 × 30 centimeters with the motif of the Oberhofer Panoramahotel was sold in the GDR. It was produced by VEB Plasticart Annaberg-Buchholz.
Movie
- The catastrophe winter 1978/79 in Oberhof - party, Stasi, power failure , documentation, mdr , 59:48 min, first broadcast: January 3, 2019 ( information )
literature
- Ernst Günther, Horst Devantier: Interhotel "Panorama" in Oberhof . in: Deutsche Architektur , 19/1970, H. 11. P. 649.
- Hans-Rudolf Meier (Ed.): Utopia and Reality. Plans for the socialist transformation of the Thuringian cities of Weimar, Erfurt, Suhl and Oberhof. Bauhaus Universitätsverlag, Weimar 2018, ISBN 978-3-95773-244-6 , pp. 210–211.
Web links
- Hotel Panorama , company website ahorn-hotels.de
- “The working class is dear to us” in: Der Spiegel from February 18, 1974
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oberhof: Panorama-Hotel will be sold from October 17, 2018 on the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk website
- ↑ www.ksta.de: Kölner Stadtanzeiger, July 26, 2014, 4:39 p.m.
- ^ Daserste.de: Mysterious Places: Oberhof. Episode 9 , accessed October 17, 2019
- ↑ a b Bernfried Lichtnau (Ed.): Architecture and urban development in the southern Baltic region from 1970 to the present. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-936872-85-9 , p. 347.
- ↑ Oberhof: 50 years and soon a little bit newer: "Panorama" hotel is experiencing a renaissance on October 7, 2019 on the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk website
- ↑ Bettina Seipp: Interhotels: What became of the hotels of socialism online article Welt.de of October 26, 2009.
- ↑ Chronological review of the Hotel Panorama , accessed on October 14, 2019
- ↑ insuedthueringen.de: Half a century of “Panorama” in Oberhof , article from October 5, 2019, accessed on October 17, 2019
- ↑ Bernfried Lichtnau (ed.): Architecture and urban development in the southern Baltic Sea region from 1970 to the present. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-936872-85-9 , p. 347.
- ^ Oberhof: Sandmann, dear Sandmann , insuedthueringen.de, accessed on November 22, 2019
- ↑ The Sandman is a regular at the Rennsteig . In: insuedthueringen.de , accessed on October 15, 2019.
- ↑ discogs.com: Waltraut Schulz & Herbert Roth - Hotel Panorama Oberhof , accessed on October 17, 2019
- ^ DDR Museum : Puzzle "Oberhof - Hotel Panorama" (inventory number 1020868) , accessed on October 17, 2019