Hotel The Westin Leipzig
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Hotel The Westin Leipzig Interhotel Merkur Hotel InterContinental Leipzig |
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| View from Gerberstrasse | |
| Basic data | |
| Place: | Leipzig , Germany |
| Construction time : | 1979-1981 |
| Opening: | March 13, 1981 |
| Renovation: | 1993-1994 |
| Status : | Built |
| Architect : | Kajima Corporation |
| Use / legal | |
| Room : | 436 |
| Owner : | Westin Hotels & Resorts |
| Client : | Limex construction export-import |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height to the roof: | 96.00 m |
| Floors : | 27 |
| Construction: | Curtain wall |
| Height comparison | |
| Leipzig : | 2. ( list ) |
| Germany : | 92. ( list ) |
| address | |
| Address: | Gerberstrasse 15th |
| Post Code: | 04105 |
| City: | Leipzig |
| Country: | Germany |
The Hotel The Westin Leipzig is 96.8 meters high and is one of the tallest structures in Leipzig . The hotel , built as Interhotel Merkur , has been part of the Starwood hotel chain since 2003 . It has 436 rooms on 27 floors, including 17 guest floors and 3 office floors. The restaurants Gusto, Brühl and Falco, as well as the bars / lounges Shinto and Falco are located in the building.
history
In 1978, the GDR foreign trade company Limex and the Japan GDR Project Company signed the contract to build the 5-star hotel. Kajima Corporation took over the project planning and execution. The cost of construction was 16.1 billion Japanese yen. The foundation stone was laid in September 1978. All of the precast concrete parts that were necessary for the construction of the external façades were delivered from West Berlin . On January 31, 1981, Kajima handed over the import object to the Interhotel Association .
On March 13, 1981, at the same time as the Leipzig spring fair, the hotel opened under the name Hotel Merkur . In addition to ministers and state secretaries from the GDR, around 100 representatives from the Japanese economy were present.
The construction company (shell construction) was Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG (DYWIDAG-Niederlassung-Berlin / West), which also had the precast concrete parts delivered from West Berlin. The lift assembly was carried out by a Japanese company. The company AB Svenska Fläktfabriken from Sweden took over heating-air-conditioning-sanitary. GDR companies were involved in the construction, from interior fittings to flat roof sealing (VEB Spezialbau Magdeburg) as well as building plumbing (sheet metal working).
When it opened, the Hotel Merkur had 447 air-conditioned rooms and apartments with 700 beds, twelve restaurants, bars and clubs with a total of 800 seats - including the nationality restaurant "Sakura", the GDR's second Japanese restaurant after a restaurant in Suhl - and five Salons and a banquet and congress center with 265 seats. The hotel employed 740 people, 110 of them in the Intershop . The hotel had 15 in-house vehicles from the Wartburg , Lada and Volvo brands . The hotel also had its own passport and visa office.
In January 1987 the 15th Congress of Internists met in the hotel, in April the International Congress of the Anatomical Society; in September of the same year the 23rd anniversary of the European Society for the Study of Diabetes. In the top ten list of the Allgemeine Hotel- und Gastronomie-Zeitung (AHGZ), the Hotel Merkur appeared in 1991 as number 8 of the best hotels in Germany.
On January 1, 1993, the Interhotel Merkur became the Hotel InterContinental Leipzig and part of the InterContinental Hotels Group . Between 1993/94 a total of DM 43 million was invested in the renovation and remodeling of the house. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Inter-Continental Hotels & Resorts, the hotel initiated the environmental and benefit campaign Ein Tag für Leipzig in 1996 .
At the end of 2002 the four-star hotel was taken over by the Westin chain and since January 1, 2003 it has been operating as The Westin Leipzig . On April 28, 2005, the Falco restaurant was opened on the 27th floor under the direction of Peter Maria Schnurr . In 2006 the gourmet restaurant received its first Michelin star and in 2008 the Falco was awarded its second Michelin star . This makes it the first restaurant in the new federal states with two Michelin stars.
Directors
- 1981–1993: Günter Bragulla
- 1993–1996: Gerhard E. Mitrovits
- 1996–2001: Christian Fuchs
- 2001–2002: Andreas Obrist
- 2002–2004: Alexander Huschka
- 2004–2005: Joerg Potreck
- since 2005: Andreas Hachmeister
Awards
- In 2010 The Westin Leipzig received the Business Diamond Award for the best business hotel in Germany 2010; awarded by Busche Verlag and the Berlin conference and event agency booking service 24.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b The Westin Leipzig, Leipzig. In: emporis.de. Retrieved June 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Hotel overview & surroundings. The Westin Leipzig, accessed June 19, 2019 .
- ^ Hotel Leipzig Central Station. The Westin Leipzig, accessed June 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Leipzig Hotel Westin: New neon writing at a height of 96 meters. In: LVZ .de. August 10, 2018, accessed June 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Leipzig's flagship hotel is not beautiful, but tall Die Welt from March 11, 2011
- ↑ FALCO - Ex Oriente Lux! ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2009 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. Gourmet Report from November 22, 2008 (in the Kochmesser.de Gourmet Report Archive)
- ↑ Business Diamond 2010 in Leipzig , busche.de, January 24, 2010
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 47.7 " N , 12 ° 22 ′ 32.4" E