Hotel zur Post (Wuppertal)

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The Hotel zur Post is the historical name of a hotel at Poststrasse 4 in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal .

history

Hotel zur Post, 1937

The first Elberfeld station of the Imperial Imperial Post existed here between 1744 and 1758 and again from 1824 to 1868 and gave the Poststrasse its name. The Zur alten Post was then run in the former post office . The writer and poet Victor Friedrich Storck (1877–1969) remembered the inn, the rooms of which “always had a pleasant atmosphere, sometimes also livened up by the gifts of fine wine”. The economy was cut short in 1890.

The Hotel zur Post has existed since around 1912. In the mid-1920s, the Hotel zur Post under owner Josef Ahn was one of the largest hostels in Elberfeld with 54 rooms - after the leading hotels Kaiserhof and Europäische Hof at the Elberfeld-Döppersberg train station . At that time Elberfeld had 17 hotels and inns as well as three Christian hospices. In addition to a breakfast room, the Hotel zur Post also had a restaurant. The hotel advertised in 1925 with running cold and warm water in all rooms, its own pastry shop, hot and cold dishes at any time of the day and "daily, first-class concerts".

In Poststrasse, on the so-called “carpet”, lay the “traffic bars” of many National Socialists and the paramilitary fighting organization of the NSDAP , the Sturmabteilung (SA) . The SA group leader, Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia , met on September 16, 1933 in the Hotel zur Post with "old fighters" of the SA such as Police President Willi Veller and Alfred Hilgers , commandant of the Kemna concentration camp .

The air raid on Elberfeld in 1943 triggered a fire in the hotel. After the war, the hotel temporarily housed first aid for refugees.

The hotel kept changing over the years. In parts it was part of the Best Western chain as Hotel Central and was now also known as Domotel City Central . Today it is part of the hotel group CPH-Hotels Germany under the name Central Hotel Wuppertal .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names - their origin and meaning . Thales Verlag, Essen 2010. pp. 304, 305.
  2. ^ Kurt Schnöring: Wuppertal in old views. Volume 2. Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1981. ISBN 978-9-02885-479-6 . P. 53.
  3. ^ Daily Consular and Trade Reports, Issues 1-76. Bureau of Manufactures, United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, 1912, p. 139. Quotation: “Two large Hotels are in course of construction, the walls of one being nearly finished, while the other is under roof, but unfinished within. One is the Hotel zur Post, while the other and much larger, is the Hotel Kaiserhof. "
  4. ^ Kurt Schnöring: Wuppertal in old views. Volume 2. Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1981, ISBN 978-9-02885-479-6 . P. 53.
  5. ^ Advertisement from 1925, Hotel zur Post, pastry shop Josef Ahn Cafe.
  6. ^ Anti-fascism in Wuppertal. 1929-1933.
  7. ↑ David Magnus Mintert: The early concentration camp Kemna and the socialist milieu in Bergisch Land. Dissertation at the Ruhr University Bochum 2007, p. 206
  8. ↑ David Magnus Mintert: Night after night: Insulted, dirty and beaten. The Kemna concentration camp in Wuppertal 1933/34. In: Jan Erik Schulte: Concentration camps in the Rhineland and Westphalia 1933–1945: central control and regional initiative. Working group of Nazi memorials in NRW. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2005, ISBN 3-506-71743-X , p. 36.
  9. ↑ Gisela books: Thimbles from rubble: memories of the end of the war in 1945 in Wuppertal. Johannes Beumann, Eva Brabender-Hofmann, Edith Geuter, history workshop of the Bergische Volkshochschule. 2015, ISBN 3-939843-48-2 . P. 62.
  10. ↑ Elfriede Mohr: From the edge of life and back, part 1 2015, ISBN 3-7347-4394-X , p. 128.
  11. ↑ Once upon a time there was the "Hotel zur Post" ...

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 29.5 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 49.9 ″  E