Hotel Sächsischer Hof
The solewerk Hotel Sächsischer Hof is a traditional house in the southern Thuringian district town of Meiningen . It is the oldest hotel in the city that has been in operation with only a few interruptions . The building is a historical monument.
location
The Sächsischer Hof is located in the city center between the old town and the English Garden at the beginning of the pedestrian zone and the main shopping street Georgstrasse. The train station , bus station and the Meiningen State Theater are only a few hundred meters away. You can get there from Eisenach via the B 19 and from Erfurt and Schweinfurt via the Meiningen-Nord AS on the A 71 directly into the city center.
Facilities
The solewerk Hotel “Sächsischer Hof” offers 27 rooms and 15 suites . In terms of culinary delights, the hotel has the gourmet restaurant “Die Posthalterei”, a rustic “Kutscherstube”, a pastry shop and a café with a terrace. The hotel offers arrangements for selected performances in the Meininger Theater and can still be used as a conference hotel.
history
In 1798, the city began building a hostel on the site of a looped bastion directly in front of the lower gate tower . In 1802 the Sächsischer Hof was completed as a domain inn and soon advanced to become the best lodging house in Meiningen. From 1808 to 1825 the Meiningen post office was located in some rooms of the house. The first extension was inaugurated as early as 1826; it was built to the east of the main building and was initially used as a casino . Until 1831, before the first Meiningen court theater was opened, theater performances and concerts were regularly held in the hotel hall. In 1843 the Princes of Thurn and Taxis acquired the Saxon Court and set up a post office again in the southern part of the house. The post office and post office , located in the rear of the building, operated until 1873.
In 1900, renovation and expansion work was carried out, which gave the Saxon court its present-day appearance. Under court building officer Eduard Fritze and master builder Otto Schubert , the client raised the building by two floors. On the upper floors it received half-timbering, decorated balconies, small pointed towers and window frames in Art Nouveau style . In 1950 the HO , a retail company in the GDR , took over the hotel and ran it until it was closed in 1990.
At the beginning of the 1950s, the SED established a district party school in the building for several years, at which Erich Honecker also appeared. During this time, structural changes took place that were intended to eradicate the hotel's urban appearance. This happened to the detriment of the building fabric. During the turn of the century , when the historical significance of the hotel was rediscovered, the HO tried to eliminate these errors through structural reconstruction. This failed because of insufficient finances and a lack of specialist knowledge . The hotel then had to close briefly before it was bought and reopened in 1991 by hotelier Sawade.
After a bankruptcy, restaurateur and hotelier Peter Henzel took over the traditional but structurally dilapidated hotel in 1996. In 1997 he had extensive renovation work carried out, which restored the original condition of the house and thus brought the old splendor of the house and its history back to life. The now successfully managed hotel earned four stars in the hotel classification and now offers regular artistic events. In 2018 Peter Henzel retired and sold the hotel with its restaurants and cafe to the new owner Solewerk Hotel GmbH from Bad Salzungen .
Guest book
As the first hotel in the city, the hotel has welcomed many prominent guests over the past 200 years. These included (selection): King Karl of Württemberg, Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Ludwig I of Bavaria, Richard Wagner , Johann Strauss , Johannes Brahms , Franz Liszt , Max Reger , Loriot , Helmut Kohl , Kurt Masur , Ephraim Kishon , Nils Landgren , Till Brönner and Klaus Maria Brandauer .
Awards
- Marketing award from the Thuringian Ministry of Economics in 1998 and 2004.
- Grand Prize for Medium-Sized Enterprises from the Oskar Patzelt Foundation in 2001.
- Service quality level I and II, Thuringia.
- Gault Millau restaurant guide 2007, 2008 and 2010, 2019: 13 points, 2011–2013: 14 points (1 chef's hat each).
- Bertelsmann Restaurant Guide 2008: 2 toques.
- Recommended by Gault Millau, the Varta guide (three diamonds) and the culinary guide Gusto (5 pans) as of 2020 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 15 ″ N , 10 ° 24 ′ 58 ″ E