Hotels Bastei, Königstein and Lilienstein

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Ibis Hotels: Bastei, Königstein and Lilienstein (from left to right, 2013)
Prager Strasse under construction, on the right the Hotel Bastei (March 1968)
Interhotels, 1975
Hotel Bastei from Reitbahnstraße, 1969
Hotel room, 2013

The three hotels Bastei , Königstein and Lilienstein in Dresden were opened in 1969 as the hotel and restaurant complex “ Interhotels Prager Straße”. Today, the Königstein and Bastei hotels belong to the Ibis hotel chain and the Lilienstein hotel has been part of The Student Hotel Group (TSH) since 2018. You are on the western side of Prager Strasse in Dresden's Seevorstadt district . The hotels are among the buildings that shape the cityscape and, with 918 rooms, are the fifth largest hotel complex in Germany. The three skyscrapers are named after the rocks in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains Lilienstein , Königstein and Bastei .

history

planning

The reconstruction of Prager Strasse, which was destroyed in World War II, began with an architectural competition in 1962. The pedestrian zone, which is 60 to 65 meters wide, was flanked in the east by the 240 meter long residential and commercial building Pragerzeile . On the west side, the hotel complex was built from 1968 to 1969 by the architects Kurt Haller , Manfred Arlt , Karl-Heinz Schulze and the interior designer Bernhard Fellmann “in a crest to Prager Straße”. The project planning took place in 1966/67 by the VEB Baukombinat Dresden.

1969 to 1989

The Bastei Hotel opened on May 30, 1969. The Königstein and Lilienstein hotels followed on the day of the Republic on the 20th anniversary of the GDR on October 7, 1969. It was the largest new hotel building by the Interhotel Association to date. Hotels in this chain offered a high standard in GDR times. They preferred to accommodate foreign guests. This also applied to the Königstein and Lilienstein hotels until 1989, while the Bastei hotel was used by union members as a vacation home. In the twenty years since it opened, a total of 5.5 million holidaymakers stayed at the Hotel Bastei for a week. In addition to the overnight stay, the hotels also offered services such as car repairs, textile cleaning and the loan of cameras. An overnight stay usually cost 80 marks . The three hotels had up to 350 employees at their heyday , including the later MDR sports reporter Gert Zimmermann as a waiter.

After the turn

After reunification , numerous Interhotels were managed by the Treuhandanstalt and continued by Interhotel AG. From 1989, the kitchens and restaurants in the houses were first redesigned. On January 1, 1992, the hotels on Prager Strasse were sold to the Klingbeil Group . On July 1, 1992, the IBIS hotel chain took over management of the three hotels. During the August flood of the Weißeritz in 2002 , the ground floor and the basement with all the technology were under water and suffered severe damage amounting to 5 million euros. The Königstein and Lilienstein hotels were reopened on October 1, 2002, and the Bastei Hotel on March 12, 2003. At that time, around 280,000 visitors a year stayed in the hotels, which corresponded to an occupancy rate of around 60 percent. In 2005 the plaster and concrete surfaces of the hotel facades were repaired, the mosaic surfaces cleaned and the illuminated advertising completely renewed. In December 2006 the hotels were sold to the American investor Blackstone Group and operated by Event Holding GmbH & Co. KG. In 2010, all three houses were modernized and given a three-star classification . Between 1969 and 2014 almost 14 million guests stayed in the three hotels.

At the beginning of 2016, the Blackstone Group sold the hotels to a consortium that also includes the American group Starwood-Capital. FDM Management bought the hotels in the summer of 2016. They continued to be operated by the Event Hotels Group. At the end of 2016, the group closed the Hotel Lilienstein. As a reason, the group officially cited market changes due to new competitors and the bed tax levied in Dresden . The two other hotels have since been run as the Ibis Hotel Dresden Zentrum and have a common reception.

The Student Hotel

The Student Hotel under renovation

In 2017 the Hotel Lilienstein was sold to the Dutch company The Student-Hotel-Group . After renovation work, the building was reopened as The Student Hotel on September 27, 2018 and offers a mixture of student residence, long-term hotel and hotel for tourists and business travelers. The group is paying around ten million euros for the renovation. The hotel mainly expects international students as guests. There are 122 hotel rooms, 175 rooms for students who can stay for up to two semesters and nine apartments for short stays. Next to the rooms there will be a restaurant that will be open around the clock; also kitchens that can be used by guests, communal work areas, a library, table tennis and a gym.

description

Hotel Lilienstein (east side), 1970

The three buildings have twelve floors. Two-storey low-rise buildings with shops connect the high-rise buildings with one another. Originally, three simple hotels without gastronomy were planned. As a result, the appearance of the hotels is essentially determined by the clear cube of the bed floors. In the course of the planning, the bed capacity was increased considerably and a separate restaurant complex with 597 seats was planned. On the ground floor of the hotels there was only one small and one large multi-purpose room with a total of 110 seats each. Staff, administration and social rooms were located on the first floor

The basement up to and including the first floor was made monolithically from reinforced concrete; the nine hotel room floors , the knee floor and the top floor in panel construction based on the so-called P 27 block. The end is formed by a cold roof . The technical systems were located on the knee floor. From the terrace on the top floor, hotel guests could see over Dresden.

The upper floors are equipped with a horizontal facade structure made of sandstone on the west gables and towards Prager Straße and concrete parapets with glass-ceramic mosaic. The wall surfaces on the ground floor are largely glazed. The installation floor is completely closed. The facade on the first floor is designed as a closed-looking band, broken up by small windows. Jürgen Seidel and Karl Bergmann created the wrought-iron wall reliefs. At the time of their opening, the three hotels had a total of 1917 beds in 837 double and 81 three-bed rooms. There were four passenger elevators and one freight elevator in each hotel; the enclosed space was almost 40,000 cubic meters.

Bastei restaurant

Bastei restaurant, 1968/69

Coming from the main train station, the first building on the left side of Prager Strasse was the former Bastei restaurant complex for many years. He was part of the hotel ensemble. A dining and grill restaurant was located on the upper floor of the building. The Espresso café was opened on the ground floor, but was converted into an Intershop shortly after the hotel opened . There was also a self-service restaurant on the ground floor for hotel guests and the general public. The architect of the restaurant was Hans Jürgen Richter.

A welcome greeting for all guests who entered Dresden from the main train station was the twelve meter wide and six meter high mural “Dresden, the city of modern socialist industry, science and art greets its guests”. It was created in 1969 in Meißner ceramic painting based on a design by Kurt Sillack and Rudolf Lipowski and is attached to the south side of the restaurant.

literature

  • Dietmar Bayer: Hotel and restaurant complex “Interhotel Prager Straße” in Dresden . In: Deutsche Bauakademie and Bund Deutscher Architekten (ed.): German architecture . No. 11 . Berlin November 1970, p. 660-666 .
  • Walter May, Werner Pampel, Heinz Konrad: Architecture Guide GDR - Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979, p. 19 .
  • Heike Israel: 45 years IBIS Hotels Prager Straße Dresden . BASTEI · KÖNIGSTEIN · LILIENSTEIN. Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2014.

Web links

Commons : Hotel Ibis, Dresden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Bastei restaurant on Prager Strasse in Dresden  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gunther Wölfle, Christiane Brasse, Michaela Schiffner, Ines Roth: The Prager Strasse in Dresden . On dealing with the legacy of post-war modernism. In: kunsttexte.de (Ed.): Kunsttexte.de . 2006 ( online (pdf, 2.92 MB) [accessed on March 14, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b Over twelve million guests in 35 years. www.ahgz.de, November 13, 2004, accessed on March 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Architecture Guide GDR, Dresden District, 1979, p. 19.
  4. ↑ The Interhotel "Bastei" opened its doors 40 years ago . In: Saxon newspaper . June 2, 2009.
  5. ↑ Dresden Interhotel "Bastei" finished . In: Berliner Zeitung . May 30, 1969 ( online [accessed March 14, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Hotels on Prager Strasse are reopening . In: Saxon newspaper . October 2, 2002.
  7. ↑ Third Ibis invites again. www.ahgz.de, March 22, 2003, accessed on March 14, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Dresden Notes. www.ahgz.de, December 10, 2005, accessed on March 14, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Sandro Rahrisch: Americans buy Dresden hotels . In: Saxon newspaper . January 21, 2016 ( online [accessed March 14, 2018]).
  10. ^ Franziska Meier: "The Student Hotel" has officially opened. www.radiodresden.de, November 27, 2018, accessed on March 5, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Sandro Rahrisch: No spring awakening for the Lilienstein . In: Saxon newspaper . March 30, 2017 ( online [accessed March 14, 2018]).
  12. ^ Ines Mallek-Klein: The Hybrid Hotel . In: Saxon newspaper . February 2, 2018 ( online [accessed March 14, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Lea Weinmann: Laptop and Lollipop. www.sueddeutsche.de, February 13, 2019, accessed on March 5, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Nora Domschke: View of the new hotel on Prager Strasse . In: Saxon newspaper . August 13, 2018 ( online [accessed August 16, 2018]).
  15. ^ Walter May , Werner Pampel and Hans Konrad : Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979. , No. 1 (h) Interhotel Bastei, Königstein, Lilienstein
  16. ↑ Friedrich Reichert: Goldbroiler and spezialx-crease-resistant. GDR living conditions in Dresden in the sixties . In: Stadtmuseum Dresden (Ed.): Dresdner Geschichtsbuch. Dresden (DZA-VERLAG for culture and science) 1997 p. 176
  17. ↑ Dresden has big plans . In: Berliner Zeitung . September 27, 1968 ( online [accessed March 14, 2018]).
  18. ↑ Catrin Steinbach: Looking for reader photos with a story! Dresden yesterday and today . In: Dresdner Latest News . 17th November 2015.

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 38.4 "  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 5.9"  E