Hotel Royal (Heilbronn)

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Hotel Royal in Heilbronn, postcard from 1907
Hotel Royal on Bahnhofsplatz in Heilbronn, photo from 1905 on the occasion of the funeral procession for Major Kramer

The Hotel Royal was a hotel on the station square in Heilbronn . It was built in 1904/05 and underlined the representative character of the station square, which was laid out in 1887/88. The building was destroyed in 1944 and poorly restored after the war. After the tenant Willy Mayer had the island hotel built on the Neckar island of Hefenweiler , the old hotel building at Bahnhofsplatz was demolished in 1958/60 and replaced by a new commercial building.

Beginnings (1904/1905–4 December 1944)

Vehicle fleet of the bus lines of the Heilbronn district in front of the Hotel Royal in 1909, the post office no. 2 built

The Heilbronn station square was laid out in 1887/88. As a gateway for travelers to the city, value was placed on a distinctly representative character in its design. a. also expressed through a monumental fountain surrounded by lamps in the square. The suburb of the station, which was still mainly gardens in the middle of the 19th century, was then developed in the years up to around 1905. The Hotel Royal was built in 1904 and 1905 on the corner of Bahnhofstrasse and Roßkampffstrasse and had the address Bahnhofstrasse 33. The representative development around the station square, with the construction of the post office No. 2 graduated in 1906. In 1933 Willy Mayer (1907–1978) leased the hotel, which was then called Hotel Bundschuh and later Hotel Königshof . The hotel was destroyed in the air raid on Heilbronn on December 4, 1944. Despite the destruction, the ceiling above the ground floor remained intact.

Post-war period (June 1945–1958/1960)

In June 1945, the Mayer café-restaurant was opened on the ground floor of the rebuilt ruin. The café's ice machines had survived the war, so there was even ice there again in the immediate post-war period. Electricity was obtained from the neighboring Hotel Kronprinz , where officers of the American military government were quartered. In the basement of the house, the Royal Hermitage provided two rooms and a billiard table. In the autumn of 1945, the Royal catered for more than a hundred refugees with two goulash cannons in the hotel courtyard, who had to wait a few days on a train on a siding in Heilbronn. When it rained, they found shelter in the basement of the former hotel. In the Royal Klause wine, coffee and “housewife's soup”, also called “rubble soup”, were sold for 20 pfennigs. Everything was offered in standard crockery, namely in cups with handles. As a result: “Nobody can see what the other is drinking. The landlords are just as hard-working as they are smart people. "

A house dish, such as cabbage and potatoes and liver dumplings with sauerkraut and potatoes, was also offered in the Royal Klause . As a result, the Royal-Klause became a very well-attended establishment in 1946 with its uniform dishes. In 1948 the Royal Restaurant opened in the former hotel . The building had been rebuilt true to the original up to the 2nd floor; in front of the building there was a terrace surrounded by lanterns for an open café. In 1948, the tenant Willy Mayer acquired a plot of land on the Neckar island of Hefenweiler and had the island hotel built there from 1952 . With its completion, the hotel building on Bahnhofsplatz was demolished between 1958 and 1960.

Art historical consideration

The building was built in the style of eclecticism , combining architectural elements from the neo -renaissance and neo-Gothic styles. The corner building with four floors had an obtuse angle as a floor plan. The upper end of the hotel had three dormitories , these lunettes or tail gables with reliefs being overlaid . The building had neo-Gothic turrets at its corners. A bay window in the style of the neo-renaissance adorned the facade.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christhard Schrenk (ed.): Heilbronn in early color photographs. A tour of the city in the late 1930s. 2008. (Small series of publications from the Heilbronn Archives 55), p. 46
  2. ↑ a b c d Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach (ed.): Heilbronn with Böckingen, Neckargartach, Sontheim. The old city in words and pictures . (Volume 1.) Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1966 (publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn, 14). No. 65, p. 50: Funeral conduit for Major Kramer at Bahnhofsplatz, 1905
  3. ↑ Jacobi 1984, p. 116.
  4. ↑ Jacobi 1984, p. 116
  5. ↑ View from Bahnhofsplatz to Bahnhofstrasse 1950 ( memento of the original from August 13, 2014 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. at stadtgeschichte-heilbronn.de, post office no. 2, on the right the partially rebuilt Hotel Royal.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtgeschichte-heilbronn.de
  6. ↑ Jacobi 1984, p. 117.

literature

  • Uwe Jacobi : Heilbronn - The most beautiful years? Post-war period in a German city . Heilbronner Stimm Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt GmbH, Heilbronn 1984 (series on Heilbronn, 9), ISBN 3-921923-01-8 . Pp. 116/117.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 32.2 "  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 30"  E