Hotel Savoy (Warsaw)
The Hotel Savoy was one of the most prestigious hotels in Warsaw before and after the First World War . The former Art Nouveau building , which was reduced by several storeys after the Second World War , is no longer used as a hotel and today contains the “Savoy Hotel Club & Restaurant” in the basement.
history
The hotel was located at 58 Nowy Świat Street, in a corner building on Ordynacka Street in Warsaw's inner city district . It was built in 1905 based on a design by the architect Bronisław Czosnowski. The builder and first operator was Stanisław Fok, who failed to make a profit with the hotel and therefore had to sell it. In 1930 Władysław Boquet became the owner. The building was the only building in Nowy Świat to be designed in the style of the Secession and had 6 floors. The interiors were decorated with frescoes by Emil Linderman with motifs in the form of stylized flowers - an echo of the Młoda Polska artistic movement . There was an admired glass connecting corridor on the first floor. In the 1920s, the hotel became known and popular for its good restaurants. The hotel opened what was then the first so-called “Dancing” in Warsaw, a facility that was to become one of the most popular nightclubs in Warsaw in the interwar years. Women were treated here on an equal footing with men; they could also appear without company.
At the beginning of the occupation by German units in 1939, Lothar Beutel , leader of Einsatzgruppe IV of the Security Police and the SD , had the safe filled with foreign currency and jewelry plundered on his own account and the loot flown out by plane. On October 23, 1939, Beutel was therefore replaced and arrested by his previous deputy, Josef Meisinger .
The building survived the war with damage, but was reduced to the new "standard height" of the street of three storeys in the course of the post-war reconstruction . There are still original decorative elements in the courtyard and in the stairwell. The hotel did not reopen.
References and comments
- ↑ Emil Linderman (1864-1945) was a Polish landscape and still life painter who also designed posters, illustrated books and created murals
- ↑ according to Ron Nowicki, Warsaw: The Cabaret Years , ISBN 1562790307 , Mercury House, San Francisco 1992
- ↑ according to Hotel Savoy nr 58 ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Pascal Travel Club (in Polish)
- ↑ Carsten Schreiber, Elite in Hidden: Ideology and Regional Rule Practice of the Security Service and the SS and its Network Using the Example of Saxony , p. 45 , Institute for Contemporary History , ISBN 978-3-486-58543-8 , Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2008
- ↑ Jaroslaw Zielinski: Warsaw -: Destroyed and Rebuild (sic) , Warsaw 2003, p. 86
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 7.8 ″ N , 21 ° 1 ′ 7 ″ E