Insel-Hotel (Heilbronn)

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The Insel-Hotel in Heilbronn

The Insel-Hotel in Heilbronn was built from 1952 to 1959 according to plans by Kurt Marohn on the Neckar island of Hefenweiler , which is historically important for the city . In addition to the residential building at Hefenweiler 17 and a gallery, the hotel is the only development on the island today. The house is the successor to the Hotel Royal and has already had numerous prominent guests. The connecting bridge between Hefenweiler and Kraneninsel was named after the island hotelier Willy Mayer in 2005 and has given the hotel its address ever since.

history

The Neckarinsel yeasts hamlet emerged as the most important artificial several islands after Neckar privilege of 1333, which allowed the city to change the course of the Neckar as her profitable. From the first third of the 15th century onwards, numerous mills settled on the island to the west outside the medieval city walls, from which the industrialization of the city later began . In the place of the Inselhotel there was once the municipal lohmühle, the municipal grinding and hammer mill and the municipal polishing mill, which in the course of industrialization either continued to be operated by the lead white factory GF Rund or were built over with new buildings from this factory. Due to the suburb of the train station and the port facilities that emerged in the 19th century, the island was finally surrounded by urban development on both sides of the Neckar. The current bridge situation with a Neckar bridge over the southern tip of the island was created in 1867 with the construction of a new Neckar bridge at the place of today's Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke. The island was densely built up with industrial buildings until the Second World War , which then fell victim to the air raid on December 4, 1944 .

The hotelier Willy Mayer (1907–1978) came from a family of innkeepers in Heilbronn, worked as a young man with his brother in South America and in 1933 took over the Hotel Royal on Heilbronn Bahnhofsplatz . This hotel was also largely destroyed in the Second World War. Mayer had it restored in a makeshift manner immediately after the war and resumed operation in 1945. In 1948 he bought a plot of land on the Hefenweiler. Together with his friend, architect Kurt Marohn (1902–1980), the plans for a hotel on the island matured. The foundation stone was laid on May 9, 1952. The café opened in November of the same year, the restaurant followed in 1954, and finally the hotel in 1959. At the same time, the architect Marohn built the city's festival hall Harmonie and various other buildings in those years of reconstruction in Heilbronn . With the inauguration of the Insel-Hotel , Willy Mayer gave up operations on Bahnhofsplatz; the former Hotel Royal was demolished by 1960.

The swimmer from Waldemar Grzimek front of the hotel

The Insel-Hotel is still of outstanding importance among the Heilbronn hotels to this day. Practically all important visitors to the city and many of the world stars who made guest appearances were quartered there. Among the guests of the house were u. a. Willy Brandt , Helmut Schmidt , Hermann Prey , Hans Albers , Zarah Leander , Marika Rökk , Maria Schell , Lilo Pulver , Lale Andersen , Salvatore Adamo , Lilo Pulver, Udo Jürgens , Daliah Lavi and Sepp Herberger . The artist AW Sauter designed the early menus. The rooms of the hotel also often formed the backdrop for social events. For example, on October 31, 1980, a reception was held in the hotel on the occasion of Mayor Hans Hoffmann's 65th birthday , and on June 15, 1988 the bookstore Fr. Stritter celebrated its 300th anniversary on the roof terrace , which coincided with the last public appearance the city library director Hans Ulrich Eberle was.

Hotelier Mayer handed the house over to his son Hans Georg Mayer (* 1937) in 1965, who was first chairman of the Heilbronner Verkehrsverein from 1990 to 1997 and has been its honorary chairman ever since. Hans Georg Mayer had the house modernized and expanded from 1970 to 1972. In 1985 an indoor swimming pool was added. Hans Georg Mayer handed the hotel over to his daughters Stephanie Landerer and Patricia Mayer, who run it today. The relationship between the city and the hotelier family was not always easy, especially since there was a lot to agree on for the expansion of the hotel due to the hotel's connection to the Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke and the purchase of additional properties on the Hefenweiler agreed.

The main access to the hotel is on foot via the Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke, which is structurally connected to the hotel. The bronze swimmer by Waldemar Grzimek (1959) is displayed in front of the hotel . Access by car is via a connecting bridge between the Kraneninsel and the Hefenweiler, which was named in 2005 after the hotel's founder, Willy Mayer. Since then, the hotel has had the address of this bridge instead of its old address at Hefenweiler 1 : Willy-Mayer-Brücke .

literature

  • Gerhard Schwinghammer, Reiner Makowski: The Heilbronn street names . 1st edition. Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-87407-677-6 , pp. 219-220.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Tuffentsammer: The mills in the city and district of Heilbronn (Baden-Württemberg mill Atlas Volume 4) , Remshalden 2005, Part 2, pp 123/124.
  2. ↑ Andreas Pfeiffer (Ed.): Heilbronn and the art of the 50s. The art scene in Heilbronn in the 1950s. Situations from everyday life, traffic and architecture in Heilbronn in the 50s. Harwalik, Reutlingen 1993, ISBN 3-921638-43-7 , p. 112.
  3. ↑ Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, archive signature F004-MP-171
  4. ↑ Karl-Heinz Dähn u. a. (Ed.): HUE or Die Lust an der Kultur , Heilbronn 1989.
  5. ^ Entry on Hans Georg Mayer in the HEUSS database of the Heilbronn city archive, contemporary history collection, archive signature ZS-15076.
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.insel-hotel.de
  7. ^ Entry on Insel-Hotel; Hotel, restaurant, café in the HEUSS database of the Heilbronn City Archives, contemporary history collection, archive signature ZS-253
  8. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.insel-hotel.de
  9. ↑ Heilbronn City Archives, files, archive signature A034-2385.

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 34.5 "  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 56.6"  E