Hotel de Saxe (Berlin)

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View of the eastern side of the Spree in Berlin. The small older building of the Hotel de Saxe is located between the Joachimsthalschen Gymnasium (marked with the letter c) and the General War School. On the right (cropped) the Berlin Stock Exchange in the New Lusthaus at the Berlin Lustgarten. Graphic by LL Müller, 1792.
The Hotel de Saxe was on Burgstrasse in Berlin, directly on the Kavalierbrücke (at the top of the map). Detail from Selter's Berlin city map, 1846.
The Hotel de Saxe (left) on the Berlin Cavalier Bridge. On the right the former Berlin military academy. Photo by FA Schwartz, 1875.
After the Joachimsthal Gymnasium and the Hotel de Saxe were demolished, the new Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge led from the Berlin Lustgarten directly to the old town. Photo around 1900.

The Hotel de Saxe was a traditional hotel in the immediate vicinity of the royal city ​​palace on Burgstrasse in Berlin , which already existed in the 18th century. It was demolished in 1884 because it stood in the way of building the Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge (today: Liebknecht Bridge ) over the Spree .

location

The Berlin Hotel de Saxe should not be confused with the hotels of the same name in Hamburg, Dresden and Leipzig as well as with the Hotel Saxonia in Königgrätzer Str. 10 in Berlin (today: Stresemannstrasse) or the (then) Sächsischer Hof in Krausenstrasse 25 / 26.

The Hotel de Saxe in Berlin was located on Burgstrasse (1869: No. 20) across from the court pharmacy at the Berlin City Palace on the eastern side of the Spree, directly on what was then known as the Kavalierbrücke, a narrow, pure pedestrian bridge that connects the palace area with Berlin's old town bandage (see photo, see map). The building of the Hotel de Saxe was the only building between the Joachimsthal'schen Gymnasium and the former Berlin military academy. At this location, directly opposite the Spree side of the Berlin City Palace, in the second half of the 19th century on the eastern side of the river on Burgstrasse, in addition to the Hotel de Saxe, several Berlin hotels were temporarily located, which were attractive for tourism and business purposes benefited: Böttcher's Hotel (No. 11), Cassel's Hotel (No. 13, from 1891 No. 16), the Hotel König von Portugal (1869: Burgstrasse No. 12), Netzler's Hotel (1912: No. 15) and the Börsen -Hotel (from 1880: No. 27 / 27a). Behind Burgstrasse and the hotels mentioned, Berlin's old town, a lively business district, stretched between the Marienkirche and the Nikolaikirche .

history

The Hotel de Saxe is first mentioned in the famous Berlin guide by Friedrich Nicolai from 1786. The Kertbeny guide book counts the Hotel 1831 (with the address at Burgstrasse 25) among the finest hotels of the first class in Berlin. In 1834 Zedlitz called it a “ new, well-equipped hotel, located opposite the castle and near the new museum and the stock exchange, with a beautiful view of the bridges of the Spree. In addition to the well-equipped 60 lodgings, good coach houses and stables, this beautiful hotel also has a tastefully furnished bathing establishment. “One must conclude from this information that the older hotel, which already existed in 1786, was thoroughly renovated and reopened in the early 1830s. A travel guide published by Carl Barthol Verlag describes the Hotel de Saxe in 1855 as a first-class hotel. In his travel guide from 1869, Kapp describes it as a quiet and recommendable hotel, which is conveniently located to Museum Island and the former Berlin Stock Exchange (on the lower Burgstrasse).

The construction of the Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge

The Kavalierbrücke (Cavalierbrücke) in Berlin has always existed as a pedestrian bridge, most recently it was also called the Six Bridge because you had to pay a six for permission to cross it. However, the transformation of Berlin into an imperial city resulted in new urban planning requirements, which led to Kaiser Wilhelm I approving the city of Berlin to build a magnificent bridge at this point in 1884 to provide an easy traffic connection between the street Unter den Linden and Berlin's old town and the east of Berlin. The new bridge was essential for the connection of the representative and 26 meter wide Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße between Lustgarten and Spandauer Straße, which was laid through old Berlin . In February 1886, construction work began on the Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge.

Demolished in 1884

The Hotel de Saxe stood in the way of this construction work and was demolished in 1884 in connection with the construction of the Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge over the Spree. (The neighboring Joachimsthal school was abandoned in 1882.) The Berlin address book from 1885 already lists the building company for Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße as the owner of the hotel property. Today, at the former position of the Hotel de Saxe, there is the continuation of the Liebknechtbrücke over the Spree, where thousands of vehicles drive into the eastward Karl-Liebknecht-Straße every day .

The owner of the Hotel de Saxe, I. Cohn, made an attempt in 1886 to reopen the hotel in the building at Leipziger Strasse 121. At this location, which is much less attractive for travelers and tourists, the Hotel de Saxe still existed in 1887 according to the Berlin address book. In 1888, however, it was no longer mentioned in the hotel list.

literature

  • Anonymous: Berlin. A guide through the city and its surroundings including Potsdam. New processing. Carl Barthol Publishing House, Berlin 1855.
  • Anonymous: Address = calendar of the Royal Prussian Head = and Residence = cities of Berlin and Potsdam, especially the high and lower colleges, instances and expeditions located there, to the year 1798. Verlag Johann Friedrich Unger, Berlin 1798.
  • Karl Baedeker : Berlin and surroundings. Guide for travelers. Verlag Karl Baedeker, 5th edition, Leipzig 1887.
  • Benedikt Goebel: The conversion of old Berlin into a modern city center. Planning, building and ownership history of the historic Berlin city center in the 19th and 20th centuries . Publishing house Braun, Berlin 2003,
  • KL Kapp: Berlin in 1869. New and complete guide with special consideration for traffic, trade, industry, art and the public. Life. Published by KL Kapp, Berlin 1869.
  • Károly Mária Kertbeny: Berlin as it is. A painting of the life of this residential city and its inhabitants, presented in precise connection with history and topography. Verlag W. Natorff, Berlin 1831.
  • Friedrich Nicolai: Description of the royal royal cities of Berlin and Potsdam, all the peculiarities located there, and the surrounding area. (4 volumes). Berlin 1786.
  • Robert Springer: Berlin. A guide to the city and its surroundings. Verlag II Weber, Leipzig 1861.
  • Volker Wagner: The Dorotheenstadt in the 19th century: from the suburban residential area of ​​baroque style to part of the modern Berlin city. Verlag De Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1998. Publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin, Vol. 94. ISBN 3-11-015709-8 .
  • Leopold von Zedlitz: Balneographic statistical-historical hand and dictionary. Publishing house Gebrüder Reichenbach, Leipzig 1834.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Friedrich Nicolai: Description of the royal royal cities of Berlin and Potsdam, all the peculiarities located there, and the surrounding area. (4 volumes). Berlin 1786. In it: Vol. 2, p. 966.
  2. ↑ cf. Kertbeny: Berlin as it is. A painting of the life of this residential city and its inhabitants, presented in precise connection with history and topography. Verlag W. Natorff, Berlin 1831. p. 307.
  3. ↑ see Leopold von Zedlitz: Balneographic statistical-historical hand and dictionary. Verlag Gebrüder Reichenbach, Leipzig 1834. P. 541f.
  4. ↑ cf. Anonymous: Berlin. A guide through the city and its surroundings including Potsdam. New processing. Carl Barthol Verlag, Berlin 1855. p. 10.
  5. ↑ cf. Kertbeny: Berlin as it is. A painting of the life of this residential city and its inhabitants, presented in precise connection with history and topography. Verlag W. Natorff, Berlin 1831. p. 307.
  6. ↑ On the planning and construction history of the Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge cf. Benedikt Goebel: The conversion of old Berlin into a modern city center. Planning, building and ownership history of the historic Berlin city center in the 19th and 20th centuries , Verlagshaus Braun, Berlin 2003, pp. 128–148, here p. 136.
  7. ↑ Volker Wagner reports on the Berlin hotel industry in the course of the development of the city in the Wilhelmine epoch in: The Dorotheenstadt in the 19th century: from the suburban residential area of ​​the baroque style to part of the modern Berlin city. De Gruyter Publishing House, Berlin, New York 1998.
  8. ↑ The Baedeker points out that the hotel was mainly visited by Jewish guests; see. Karl Baedeker: Berlin and surroundings. Guide for travelers. Verlag Karl Baedeker, 5th ed. Leipzig 1887, p. 13.

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 7 ″  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 11 ″  E