Box Hotel Luisenhof
| Box Hotel Luisenhof | |
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| city |
 Hanover
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| address | Luisenstrasse 1–3
30157 Hanover |
| Website | www.kastens-luisenhof.de |
| Hotel information | |
| opening | 1856 |
| building | 2 |
| owner | Marie Sdralek, b. Kasten, GmbH & Co KG |
| management | Michael Rupp |
| Classification | 5 star superior |
| Awards | Certified Business Hotel |
| Furnishing | |
| room | 149 |
| Restaurants | 1 |
| Bars | 1 |
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Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '27 .7 " N , 9 ° 44' 27" O Kastens Hotel Luisenhof is a traditional luxury hotel in the center of Hanover , which has been a “good address” for emperors, kings and celebrities since the end of the 19th century .
history
The innkeeper and wine connoisseur Heinrich Kasten (born October 27, 1821 in Kolenfeld near Wunstorf ; † February 10, 1893 in Hanover) rented a house at Theaterplatz 9 in 1856, which he bought in 1859. He turned the building near the royal court theater into a hotel. It was called the Kastens Hotel and quickly became the focus of Hanoverian social life. Among other things, the members of the German National Association , which existed from 1859 to 1867 and led by Rudolf von Bennigsen , met there every Saturday . Later, Kaiser Wilhelm II used the hotel for meetings in his capacity as head of the Uhlan regiment stationed in Hanover and as protector of the Order of St. John . The bar was also popular with equestrian clubs, military personnel and visitors to the opera. Well-known overnight guests were Paul von Hindenburg (from 1866) and Theodor Fontane (1880), Enrico Caruso (1911) and others. a.
After Heinrich Kasten's death in 1893, his son Friedrich Kasten took over the management. He had extensive conversions and modernizations carried out and in 1906 the entire facade of the hotel was redesigned in the neo-baroque style.
In the years 1914 and 1915 , the Luisenhof was built on Luisenstrasse by the Berlin-born architect Alex Diepenbrock as a " dependance " of the then Hotel Kasten . In the five-storey reinforced concrete building with a neo-baroque grid facade - which was placed under monument protection by the city of Hanover - a spacious hotel with 130 beds was built, which in a very short time became as famous as the parent company Kastens Hotel . Friedrich Kasten died in 1919.
The third generation follows with his son Leo Kasten and his sister Mary. Leo Kasten died as early as 1921, so that the entire hotel business became the sole property of Mary Kasten. In 1932 she married Erich Sdralek, who had been with the company since 1928 and under whose leadership further renovation work was carried out until 1934.
Towards the end of the Second World War in 1945, both houses, both Kastens Hotel an der Oper and the Luisenhof in Luisenstrasse, were completely destroyed by bombs in the air raids on Hanover ; only parts of the facades were still standing. Since there was almost no hotel in Hanover at that time, the houses should be rebuilt as soon as possible. It was possible to put the first house, the Luisenhof, back into operation for the first Hanover Fair in 1947, with the neo-baroque facade being added in style. The name KASTENS HOTEL LUISENHOF was first used in 1948.
From 1952 to 1953 the so-called Messehotel was built on the corner of Luisenstrasse / Rathenaustrasse, which formed a unit with the Luisenhof that had already been built. This gave the hotel a facade facing Opernplatz again. The architects of both construction projects were Ernst Zinsser and Georg Seewald. Since then, both houses have been run under the name KASTENS HOTEL LUISENHOF , which only became official in 1974. The ruin of the destroyed hotel building from 1906 on the corner of Opernplatz-Theaterstrasse was not rebuilt, but sold and demolished.
Michael Rupp has been managing the hotel as managing director since 1997. For the 150th anniversary, the hotel was equipped on the 6th floor with a modern fitness training and sauna area with a view of Hanover's city center, which can be used exclusively by overnight guests. In May 2008 the hotel was the first hotel in Hanover to be awarded 5 stars by DEHOGA . Since the summer of 2011, the house has received the highest award as a 5-star superior hotel.
See also
literature
- Heinz Lauenroth : New building in Hanover. AWAG-Verlag Max Kurz KG, Stuttgart 1955, p. 141
- Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar Röhrbein (ed.): History of the city of Hanover. Vol. 2, Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt, Hanover 1997, p. 333
- Waldemar Röhrbein: Kastens Hotel Luisenhof in Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 340
- Michael Schwibbe, Andreas Stephainski: Kastens Hotel Luisenhof, 150 years of zeitgeist based on tradition , hrg. Kastens Hotel Luisenhof, Hanover 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-018510-6
- Georg Thomas: Hanover's luxury hotel . in Lower Saxony Economy Sept. 2018 pp. 42–43
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Kastens Hotel Luisenhof. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 340.
- ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Luisenstrasse 2 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Art and culture lexicon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, Springe: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 167