Hotel Waldlust (Freudenstadt)

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The Hotel Waldlust in Freudenstadt around 1900 with the hotelier Ernst Luz (sitting left)

The Hotel Waldlust in Freudenstadt , a district town in Baden-Württemberg , was built in 1902 for the hotelier Ernst Luz. After its opening, the Grande Hotel accommodated the international aristocracy: princes, sultans and kings. In 1926, King Gustav V of Sweden resided in the Hotel Waldlust, and in the 1930s the world-famous film stars Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford stayed .

The luxury hotel was built according to plans by the architect Wilhelm Vittali (1859–1920) from Baden-Baden , who had acquired a reputation as a specialist in spa and hotel buildings.

From an elegant villa , the summer house Waldlust , an exclusive hotel with 140 rooms, 60 private bathrooms and 100 sunbathing balconies was created. At the beginning of the 1920s a stucco ballroom was added. The hillside location in the countryside offers a magnificent view to the east as far as the Swabian Alb .

In the 1940s, the hotel experienced a heyday in the family business under Adele B. The hotel owner was murdered in her room in 1949; after her death and the end of the Second World War, the house was converted into a hospital. Since the 1960s, the staff reported on inexplicable phenomena associated with the unredeemed soul of Adele B.

After many changes of ownership and vacancies, the hotel has been unused since 2005 and is for sale. The Association for Cultural Monuments Freudenstadt e. V. has made the preservation of the cultural monument and its park its task. He secures the building and park and offers tours, events and overnight stays in the dilapidated hotel. The vacant building repeatedly serves as a backdrop for film producers, amateur filmmakers and photographers.

The Hotel Waldlust is one of the most famous lost places in Baden-Württemberg, the splendor of bygone times and the decay of once-renowned buildings attracts many visitors and contemporary documentarists.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sira Huwiler: Horror: This is the ghost hotel in the Black Forest. May 4, 2019, accessed January 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Wolf Alexander Hanisch: Black Forest: The other side: swept, trimmed, ordered . In: The time . June 24, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed January 6, 2020]).
  3. ^ Siegfried Schmidt: The film work for the murderous story "Bela Kiss" in the Hotel Waldlust is in full swing. In: Neckar Chronicle. September 9, 2010, accessed on December 11, 2018 (names the films Bela Kiss: Prologue , Weitertanzen by Friederike Jehn and friends from the past ).
  4. ↑ Schwarzwälder Bote, Oberndorf Germany: Freudenstadt: The former grand hotel has rooms available again - Schwarzwälder Bote. Retrieved January 6, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Benjamin Seyfang immortalized Lost Places in Baden-Wuerttemberg. In: Baden's latest news. December 22, 2019, accessed on January 6, 2020 (German).

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Coordinates: 48 ° 27 ′ 16.2 "  N , 8 ° 25 ′ 2"  E