Hotel ten pounds

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Hotel ten pounds around 1914
View from the balcony 1896
Postcard from 1900
State in 2015

The Hotel Zehnpfund was a renowned hotel in Thale in Saxony-Anhalt.

history

After Thale had a railway connection in 1862, the character of the place changed from an industrial location to a tourist destination. As early as 1863, the Hotel Zehnpfund was opened in the immediate vicinity of the train station, which was to develop into the most elegant hotel in the Harz region. Hotel Zehnpfund was even referred to as the largest summer hotel in Germany at the time. The house, which had around 120 rooms and suites, was built by the Magdeburg-Halberstädter railway company .

During the First World War , the hotel was used as a hospital . Back then, the balcony with a view of the park was turned into an operating theater. The building was later used as an orphanage and health insurance company, then as a town hall and library. Having become a refurbishment object, the building should be converted back into a luxury hotel after the fall of the Wall . However, the high investment costs of around 22 million euros prevented these plans from being implemented quickly. In 2004, 8 million euros and a rapid connection of the hotel to the spring water resources of Hubertusbad were assumed, in 2009 the mayor of the city expected a reopening in 2011.

In December 2016, the building was sold to the Azurit Group, which plans to convert the property into a senior citizen center, which is due to open in 2021.

The Friedenspark, which you can see from the balcony of the hotel, has been preserved. Today it is decorated with sculptures from the Mythenweg.

On May 20, 2016, the second part of the “Forgetting in the Harz” trilogy was shown in a premiere party at the Hotel Zehnpfund, before the cinema premiere in Herzberg am Harz . The film is about " Lost Places " in the Harz region, which also includes the hotel.

Fontane in Thale

One of the most famous guests in Thale and also in the Hotel Zehnpfund was Theodor Fontane . For the first time he stayed in the place in the spring of 1868; This was followed by summer stays in 1877, 1881 and 1882. In literary terms, these stays were reflected primarily in the novel Cécile , which is set partly in the Hotel Zehnpfund and in the surrounding area, and in Effi Briest . Fontane discovered the role model for his Effi, as she appears for the first time in the novel, on the balcony of the hotel: "I was sitting in the ten-pound hotel, on the often described balcony, and looked up at the Rosstrappe, when an English siblings [...] stepped out. The girl was dressed exactly as I described Effi in the very first and then again in the very last chapters: hanger, blue and white striped calico, leather belt and sailor's collar. I believe that I could not find a better appearance and dress for my heroine, ”he wrote in 1895.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hotel Ten Pound  Collection of Pictures, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. Thale im Bodetal - Mythenweg Thale In: bodetal.de , accessed on September 4, 2018.
  2. Barbara Klimke: The poet as a taster . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 7, 1998.
  3. Thomas Balcerowski: Investor found for the "Zehnpfund" hotel - balcerowski.de ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. Thomas Balcerowski: Hotel ten pounds ex. Town Hall - July 16, 2009 ( Memento from July 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. Hotel Zehnpfund - Hesse Grundbesitz In: hesse-grundbesitz.com , accessed on September 25, 2019.
  6. ^ Benjamin Richter: Theodor-Nolte-Straße in Thale: Ex-Hotel Zehnpfund is being converted into a senior citizens' center. In: mz-web.de. January 1, 2019, accessed September 25, 2019 .
  7. Wolfgang Schilling: Documentary film "Forgetting in the Harz II": memories of former hotels in Gernrode, Thale and Schierke. In: mz-web.de. May 23, 2016, accessed September 25, 2019 .
  8. ^ Hans Walter: Literary Traces: Works from Waldesstille. In: mz-web.de. June 5, 2009, accessed September 4, 2018 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 42.7 "  N , 11 ° 1 ′ 54.3"  E