Hotel at Steinplatz

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Hotel am Steinplatz , 2014

The Hotel am Steinplatz is a luxury hotel in Berlin . It is located in the district of Charlottenburg on Steinplatz between the Zoologischer Garten train station and Ernst-Reuter-Platz .

The house was built in 1906/1907 by the architect August Endell and first opened as a hotel in 1913 . Today the hotel is run under the Autograph Collection brand of the US hotel company Marriott International .

history

Pension Steinplatz
Postcard around 1910
Before the renovation, 2008

After its construction in 1906/1907, the building initially served as a residential building. For a while, an officers' mess was housed there before the First World War . In 1913 the merchant and banker Max Zellermayer bought the house, converted it into a hotel and guesthouse and found a tenant in the well-known Dresden hotelier Rudolf Sendig . Sendig did not sign the lease for himself, but for his son, which fell in 1915. The father then asked to terminate the contract. Zellermayer initially wanted to look for a new tenant, but then decided to take over the business himself. The often mentioned founding year 1916 therefore marks the beginning of management by the Zellermayer family. After the October Revolution , Russian aristocrats and intellectuals moved into the stately suites , and the hotel became a meeting place for prominent Berliners and travelers such as Vladimir Nabokov , Yehudi Menuhin and Zarah Leander .

During the Second World War , operations were initially maintained improvised - including the tomato patch on the roof and the goat herd in the courtyard. In 1947 the hotel was reopened by the children of the original owner, Max Zellermayer, Ilse Eliza, Achim and Heinz Zellermayer . Heinz Zellermayer gained notoriety in 1949 when he persuaded the commander of the American sector, Frank Howley , to abolish curfew in Berlin . With the artist bar Volle Pulle in the basement, Steinplatz established itself as a meeting place and secret stage for artists, actors and intellectuals from 1950. Heinrich Böll , Günter Grass , Paul Celan but also Brigitte Bardot , Luciano Pavarotti and Romy Schneider were guests.

The building later served as a retirement home , after which it was empty. After three years of renovation and remodeling, it reopened in December 2013 as a 5-star hotel with 84 rooms and three suites .

architecture

The house is an outstanding structural testimony to Art Nouveau in Berlin. It was built by August Endell , the architect of the Hackesche Höfe , in 1906/1907. The corner building at Steinplatz 4 is an eye-catching structure in the dense urban fabric of City West , which is characterized by historic apartment blocks . The olive-green facade, which is listed as a historical monument, is structured by two bay windows, geometric stucco elements and variously shaped lattice windows and the unusual stucco, which is reminiscent of forest and night motifs.

literature

  • Ilse Eliza Zellermayer: Princess suite . My century in the hotel . Construction Verlag, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-351-02720-9 .
  • Nicola Bröcker, Gisela Moeller, Christiane Salge (eds.): August Endell 1871–1925. Architect and form artist . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2012, pp. 211–224. ISBN 978-3-86568-654-1 .

Web links

Commons : Hotel am Steinplatz (Berlin)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nicola Bröcker, Gisela Moeller, Christiane Salge (eds.): August Endell 1871–1925. Architect and form artist . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2012. p. 211
  2. ↑ 1913 is considered to be the year the hotel was founded. B. on the hotel's website . From 1914, Max Zellermayer appears in the Berlin address books as the owner of the building .
  3. ↑ Landesarchiv Berlin, death certificate of the registry office Charlottenburg I, No. 579. Rudolf Sendig, 38 years old, residing at Uhlandstrasse 197 (which is part of the hotel complex), died on April 26, 1915 in Jonkershove in Flanders in the reserve field hospital no. 78.
  4. ↑ Ilse Eliza Zellermayer: Three tenors and a soprano: My life for the opera , Norderstedt 2015, p. 44 (partial view on Google Books ). Compare also Ilse Eliza Zellermayer: Prinzessinnensuite. My century in the hotel . Structure Verlag, Berlin 2010, p. 17 f.
  5. ↑ Sandra Basan: Ilse Eliza Zellermayer tells a life in anecdotes , in: Berliner Morgenpost , June 22, 2010; see also Artur Brauner's preface to Zellermayer 2015
  6. ↑ Zellermayer 2010. p. 10
  7. ↑ Zellermayer 2010. p. 101
  8. ↑ Cay Dobberke: Five stars shine again. In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 13, 2013. Accessed June 29, 2014.
  9. ↑ Zellermayer 2010. p. 114
  10. ↑ New hotel at Steinplatz revives luxury tradition in the neighborhood. At: berlin.de , accessed on June 29, 2014.
  11. ↑ Bröcker, Moeller, Salge 2012. p. 211
  12. ↑ Bröcker, Moeller, Salge 2012. p. 214
  13. ↑ Mietshaus & Hotel Steinplatz 4 Uhlandstrasse 197 in the database of the State Monuments Office Berlin

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 28.7 "  N , 13 ° 19 ′ 35.4"  E