Hotel city of Mulhouse

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Hotel city of Mulhouse
place Mulhouse
architect Rolf Huhn
Client Trade organization (HO)
Construction year 1968-1969
demolition 1998-1999
Coordinates 51 ° 12 '27 "  N , 10 ° 27' 40"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 12 '27 "  N , 10 ° 27' 40"  E

The Hotel Stadt Mühlhausen was a hotel complex in the city of Mühlhausen that existed from 1969 to 1998 . The seven-story main building of the facility, which is centrally located on Untermarkt (from 1952 to 1990 Wilhelm-Pieck-Platz), was the tallest secular building in the city at the time.

History and conception

Mühlhausen, located in the middle of the Holy Roman Empire in terms of traffic geography, was first mentioned in a document on January 18, 967. When the Royal Palatinate was granted city rights in 1135 , the Lower Market , located at the intersection of important military and trade routes , had already emerged as a prosperous center, with the result that the first catering and accommodation facilities were likely to have emerged on site.

The Goldener Engel inn on the east side of today's Untermarkt at the corner of Erfurter Straße was first mentioned in the town chronicle in 1644. After various renovations and extensions and multiple renaming, the hotel, now run as Hotel Schlenker , was taken over by the state trade organization (HO) in 1959 . As part of the representative reorganization and design of the socialist city centers , which was not insignificantly suggested by the then Chairman of the State Council of the GDR , Walter Ulbricht , which was to find expression in modern buildings and a contemporary traffic management, the adaptation of the major war damage was also largely carried out Spared Mühlhausen inner city at the disposition. Following this guideline, which was conceived in the GDR from the mid-1960s, it was also necessary to contrast the numerous existing churches in the soft image of one of the oldest cities in the Erfurt district with a modern structural height dominant.

After the existing on-site, consisting of four buildings (Untermarkt 18, 19/20, 21, 22), was removed at the beginning of 1968, the foundation stone was laid on July 26 for the seven-storey extension to the existing building, which was to be erected using the assembly method Hotels. The urban redesign of the Untermarkt, which was taking place at the same time, resulted in the final shutdown of the Mühlhausen tram, which had been in service since 1898, on June 26, 1969, owing to a change in traffic management . With a rally attended by over 10,000 people , on October 6, 1969, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the founding of the GDR , the redesigned market square was handed over to the customer and the HO hotel “Stadt Mühlhausen” was officially opened.

The completion of the free-standing Gothic Divi Blasii Church , which was placed not far across from the cityscape, coincided with the inauguration of the prestigious television towers in Berlin and Dresden and the representative Dresden Palace of Culture , which was the largest multi-purpose building of this type in the country to date . The hotel complex, consisting of the high-rise building and the renovated old wing, comprised 61 rooms and 2 apartments with a total of 117 beds. In addition, a restaurant, a pub, a dance bar as well as conference rooms and from 1975 an Intershop were available.

After 1990

After the reunification and peaceful revolution in the GDR , the house, which had previously been run by the nationally owned trade organization (HO), was privatized by the Treuhandanstalt and converted into a limited liability company. With the monetary, economic and social union that came into force between the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR on July 1, 1990 , the economic decline of the city's largest hotel began, partly due to the immediate system transformation . After a not inconsiderable investment backlog had arisen in the meantime , the facility was closed on July 1, 1998.

The dismantling of all buildings of the previous operation, which included the thorough removal of the still preserved historical building fabric, began on September 16, 1998 and continued until the spring of the following year. On December 27, 2000, the new main building of the Sparkasse Unstrut-Hainich at Untermarkt 19 , built on the site of the former Hotel Stadt Mühlhausen , was opened to the public.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Körber: Houses on the Untermarkt (documentation with numerous images)
  2. ^ Gunter Görner, Beate Kaiser: Chronicle of the City of Mühlhausen: 1946–1975 . Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza 2006, ISBN 978-3-937135-30-4 , p. 327
  3. ^ Gunter Görner, Beate Kaiser: Chronicle of the City of Mühlhausen: 1946–1975 . Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza 2006, ISBN 978-3-937135-30-4 , p. 337
  4. ↑ Gunter Görner, Beate Kaiser: Chronicle of the City of Mühlhausen: 1976-2000 . Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza 2006, ISBN 978-3-938997-45-1 , p. 378