Hotel city of Hamburg

At the end of the 18th century

The hotel around 1850

1901

1905

The Hotel Stadt Hamburg was a well-known hotel beyond the borders of Lübeck . It will u. a. mentioned in Thomas Mann's works by Buddenbrook or Tonio Kröger .

history

The Hamburger Council in 1444 acquired the property Klingberg 1 , the Hamburg Ratsherrn as a flophouse served in Luebeck. In the linguistic usage at the time it was the Hamburg hostel . In 1480 Hinrich Castorp left a house on the Klingenberg in Lübeck to the City Council of Hamburg. This later became the Hotel Stadt Hamburg.

Around 1850 the hotel, which was then run by G. T. Pflüg, had 71 guest rooms and advertised with its bath and shower facilities, a stable, the lockable coach house and the garden behind the house. In 1901, in a report on the 40th anniversary of the transition of the hotel into the ownership of the Toepfer family , the history of the hotel was examined using internal and external sources in the Vaterstädtische Blätter , the illustrated supplement to the Lübeck advertisements . The former Hamburg hostel was the oldest inn in Lübeck at the time .

Around 1930 the hotel was also called "Hamburger Hof". At that time it advertised that it was the first and most modern house on the square. On the night of March 28-29, 1942, the hotel was destroyed by an air raid. Two lion figures have survived , probably by Christian Daniel Rauch . They once adorned the hotel entrance and are now in front of the Holsten Gate . These lions were mentioned in Thomas Mann's story Tonio Kröger . The cast iron lions were probably created in 1823. One of the animals is shown asleep, the other awake. The Lübeck consul Johann Daniel Jakobi (1798–1847) bought it and had it set up in front of his house at 19 Großer Petersgrube . In 1873 they were taken from there to the Hotel Stadt Hamburg. After the bombardment, they were taken into custody by the building administration and then placed there in front of the Holsten Gate after the redesign of the green area.

On May 18, 1861 the house passed to Carl Toepfer. After his death it was managed by his widow and, on August 1, 1900, by his son Adolf Toepfer. Adolf Toepfer was on December 26, 1904 by the Grand Duke of Oldenburg and on 22 August 1906 by Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz for their Hoftraitor appointed. Both were present at the royal lunch table during the imperial maneuver in 1904 in the Hotel Stadt Hamburg . After the First World War , Toepfer died on June 17, 1919 after a short period of suffering. The director continued to run the hotel until 1926. Hugo Fleischer took over the hotel until the knight Egon von Szadkowski took over in 1938. v. Szadkowski died in the air raid on Lübeck and lies in the city's honorary cemetery on the field of the victims of the air raid . The hotel was not rebuilt.

Guests (real and fictional) of the house

• In 1819 Franz Xaver Mozart stayed in the hotel. A drawing by Eduard Gaertner from 1837 shows the view from one of the hotel rooms. Prince Napoleon had breakfast at the hotel on August 21, 1868. Thomas Mann himself stayed in the hotel, in which he also had the impostor Bendix Grünlich, in order to impress his future father-in-law, take “a few rooms” with his Buddenbrooks , or let Tonio Kröger stay during his incognito visit to his city. As a parallel to Tonio Kröger that is worth mentioning, Mann himself almost had been arrested there as a con man in 1899.
• Stefan and Friderike Zweig stayed in the hotel in 1926.

• When military guests were in the city, they stayed, as the Vaterstädtische Blätter always reported, in the Hotel Stadt Hamburg . In this case, as in front of the entrance to the town hall, when the Senate met, an honor guard stood in front of the hotel.

• When Lübeck received his regiment on April 1, 1897 and became the seat of the 81st Infantry Brigade , Major General Günther von Bünau and Colonel v. Kettler will initially stay in the hotel in the absence of suitable accommodation.

• In 1904 the annual imperial maneuver took place practically at the gates of the city. While living in Lübeck foreign correspondents in the Hotel Kaiserhof on the Untertrave lived, the royal guests attended on the recommendation of the Emperor , who already at the opening of the Elbe-Trave Canal had spent the night here from 15 to 16 June 1900 in the Hotel City of Hamburg , unless they were housed privately in the house of Lübeck senators. Among them were Prince Albrecht , Prince Friedrich Leopold , Prince Heinrich XVIII. and Colonel General Hahnke . On the evening of September 13, under the direction of the hotel owner, a royal lunchtime table was set up within its walls , after which one was entered in the house's golden book . In addition to the above, Prince Heinrich , the Grand Duke v. Oldenburg , Duke Paul Friedrich zu Mecklenburg , Count August zu Eulenburg , Count Robert von Zedlitz-Trützschler , Minister of War v. One , Lieutenant General v. Gayl present.

• On another floor of the house there was the plaque for officers who were alien : the photo (right) shows:

The foreign military attachés with their German leaders during the imperial maneuver

1. Colonel Nazif Bey, Attaché Militaire de Turquie,
2. Le Marquis de Laquniche, Commandant de l'artillerie attaché de militaire à L'Ambassade de France à Berlin,
3. Colonel J. French-Commandant d'Artillerie à Gibraltar,
4. Lieutenant Colonel Frhr. v. Salza, Kgl. Saxon military representative,
5. WP Biddle - Captain Americain Mitair Attaché,
6. Lieutenant Colonel v. Dorrer - Kgl. Württ. Military Plenipotentiary,
7. Lieutenant Colonel Kikutaro Oi. K. - Japanese military attaché,
8. SE Smiley Captain US Army,
9. Colonel v. Schebeko - Aide-de-Camp de SM l'Empereur de Russie, Agent Militaire,
10. Same , Colonel British Militairy Attaché,
11. Le Compte del Peñon de la Vega - Colonel Attaché militaire à l'Ambassade de l'Espagne,
12. First Lieutenant v. Müller b. Guard regiment on foot Berlin,
13. Mr. v. Loen, Rittmeister in the 18th Dragoons Regiment, Parchim,
14. Le Comte de Gastadello, Militaire-Attache d'Italie,
15. Major Quentin Agnew, Militaire-Attaché d'Angleterre,
16. Alois Klepsch Kloth v. Roden , K. u. K. Oesterr. Ung. Military attaché,
17. Le Captain Lie, Military Attaché de Suède & Norge.

• Anna Barnekow, the author of a North German cookbook , was head chef at the Hotel Stadt Hamburg for several years.

• Heinrich v. Tschirschky and Bögendorff , the State Secretary in the Foreign Office , stayed here on February 9, 1906 for his farewell visit. Until January 17th he was the royal Prussian envoy of the Hanseatic cities and Mecklenburg.

source

• The oldest inn in Lübeck. In: Father-city sheets . May 12, 1901.

Web links

Commons : Hotel Stadt Hamburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Photo of the hotel ruins after the bombardment in 1942. Lübeck website in the picture ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Literary walks in Lübeck
2. ↑ See the analogies in Lübeck such as the Bishop's Hostel of the Ratzeburg Cathedral Chapter.
3. ^ Gerhard Neumann: Hinrich Castorp; a Lübeck mayor from the second half of the 15th century. Stadtarchiv Verlag, 1932, p. 87.
4. ↑ Business card from around 1850
5. ↑ After the city increased the rent from 650 ℳ to 1200 1200, the council parted with this facility. He sold it for ℳ 25,000. On May 18, 1861, the house passed to Carl Toepfer, who united the house with the neighboring property. After his death it was managed by his widow and, on August 1, 1900, by his son Adolf Toepfer. On May 18, 1861 the house passed to Carl Toepfer. After his death it was managed by his widow and, on August 1, 1900, by his son Adolf Toepfer.
6. ↑ Company and city ​​archives
7. ↑ Others that he encountered as competitors in the 1850s, such as the inns Fünf Thürme , City of London , Drei Kronen or Zum Engel , no longer existed in 1901.
8. ^ Envelope from around 1930
9. ↑ The Lions from Holstentorplatz.
10. ↑ Father-city sheets. first edition from 1905 and edition from August 29, 1906.
11. ↑ researched from the Lübeck address books and a visit to the cemetery of honor
12. ^ Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart: Travel diary 1819–1821: Warsaw, Danzig, Elbing, Königsberg, Copenhagen ... Ed .: Rudolph Angermüller. KH Bock, Bad Honnef 1994, ISBN 3-87066-332-4 , p. 137 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
13. ↑ Augsburger Abendzeitung. 240, September 1, 1868, p. 2897.
14. ↑ Manfred Eickhölter, Britta Dittmann: To please everyone - is impossible. Thomas Mann and Lübeck, 1875 to 2000. A chronicle. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2001, ISBN 978-3-7950-1246-5 , p. 68.
15. ↑ Dirk Heißerer: In the magic garden. Thomas Mann in Bavaria. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52871-6 , p. 17.
16. ↑ Stefan Zweig, Friderike Maria Zweig: When the clouds give way for a moment. Correspondence 1912–1942. Frankfurt 2006, ISBN 3-10-097096-9 , p. 22.
17. ^ Otto Dziobek : History of the Infantry Regiment Lübeck (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg i. D. 1922. (first edition. Officers' Association formerly 162 on its 25th foundation day)
18. ↑ Entry of the 162s. In: Lübeck advertisements. No. 167, April 1, 1897, section: Daily report.
19. ↑ A12 B5 C3 D1
20. ^ Lübeck advertisements: Issue A of September 14, 1904
21. ↑ Maneuver memories. In: Father-city sheets. September 25, 1904.
22. ^ Anna Barnekow: North German cookbook. A compilation of self-tried and self-proven recipes. Salzwasser-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86195-318-0 . In the original, the title is: "... only recipes that have been tried and tested by ourselves ".
23. ↑ Your Excellency von Tschirschky and Bögendorff, Königigl. Prussia. Envoy to the Hanseatic cities and Mecklenburg. In: Father-city sheets. Year 1906, No. 8, edition of February 18, 1906, p. 29.

Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '52.7 "  N , 10 ° 41' 4.6"  E