Hotel Walhalla
The Hotel Walhalla is a Grade I listed timber-framed buildings of the Baroque in Osnabrück ( Lower Saxony ).
The building has been used as a restaurant since it was built in 1690. It takes its name from Valhalla , the resting place of fallen fighters from Norse mythology.
location
The Hotel Walhalla is located in the old town of Osnabrück on Bierstrasse in the immediate vicinity of the Osnabrück town hall and the market.
history
The bailiff Gerdt Heindrich Meuschen built a three- story, gable - independent half-timbered house on Bierstrasse in 1690 . The gable floors in the gable roof are cantilevered like the second floor. Meuschen had a medallion affixed above the entrance portal, next to it are the family coat of arms of the builder and his wife Susanne Gertraud, a native of Lengerken. The half-timbered consoles are provided with carved figures of the evangelists Matthew , Mark , Luke and John as well as Jesus . The rear part of the building was designed as stone work .
A previous building from 1530 had been on the property. It was possibly also destroyed in the town fire of 1613, in which more than 900 houses were destroyed, or demolished for the new building. Meuschen's new building was passed on to his daughter and later to his granddaughter, whose husbands were wine merchants. Christian Jäger, a relative, set up a wine tavern in 1740 which, because of its proximity to the town hall, was frequented by dignitaries of the city and called the Ratsschenke. One of the most prominent guests in the 18th century was Justus Möser , the lawyer, politician and historian born in Osnabrück in 1720. The house remained in the family until the death of Jäger's daughter Marie Gertrud, who was married to the wine merchant Justus Wilhelm Tenge. The first guest rooms were set up in 1820. After the death of Marie Gertrud Tenge, different hosts continued to run the house as an inn from 1846. From 1876 to 1971 the house was owned by the Grabe family, although it has since been leased.
In 1934, a memorial stone was attached to a side door, which reminds of the snatch of the Heger Laischaft . It bears the Low German inscription “Küms du herrut ut duss durn / Un hates de Mäse nice to slurp / then don't put it here un pinkle / sock di datou in another corner. Snautgang 1934 " .
During the Second World War , the attic was destroyed by an incendiary bomb in the bombing on September 13, 1944; the building itself could be saved. Hotel operations had to be temporarily suspended.
In 1985 a businessman bought the building. An adjacent building on Kleine Gildewart Street was added to the hotel. In 1985 the renovation of the Hotel Walhalla began; it was completed in 1986. In 1992 the hotel complex was expanded to include two houses on Heger Strasse and Kleine Gildewart Street. One of the buildings was erected in 1616, three years after the city fire of 1613, and, like the main building, is a listed building. The half-timbered house with a half-hip roof, popularly known as the cat house, was restored in 1977.
In 1993 the businessman's daughter took over the hotel, which she runs with her husband. It has 66 rooms with 100 beds, two restaurant rooms and conference rooms.
Guests
The Hotel Walhalla has had prominent guests from home and abroad in the course of its history. In addition to Justus Möser, they included Justus Wilhelm Lyra , Albert Lortzing and Erich Maria Remarque . In 1997 Sweden's Queen Silvia stayed in the house, the Dalai Lama the following year . In 1998 the 350th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia was celebrated in Osnabrück . On this occasion, Queen Silvia and King Carl XVI were on October 24, 1998 . Gustaf of Sweden, Norway's royal couple Harald V and Sonja , the Danish Queen Margrethe II and Prince Consort Henrik , Belgium's King Albert II and Queen Paola , the Dutch Queen Beatrix , King Juan Carlos I of Spain and other ruling couples guests of the Walhalla. The politicians included the then Federal President Roman Herzog, as well as foreign guests, the Presidents of Italy, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and representatives of other countries.
In his article for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit in December 2004, the writer Martin Walser described encounters in Osnabrück and his visit to the Hotel Walhalla, where he ate boiled beef and drank beer, “as if beer were my drink at all”.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 38.2 " N , 8 ° 2 ′ 27.2" E