Kurhaus Binz

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Kurhaus Binz from the pier seen
Kurhaus in the evening

The Kurhaus Binz is located on the beach promenade, on the Kurplatz and not far from the Binz pier in the Baltic Sea resort of Binz on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Today it is a luxury hotel of the Travel Charme hotel group.

history

Kurhaus on a postcard from 1900

Berlin bankers invested with the "Ostseebad Binz AG" in the expansion of the seaside resort and had a spa house built, which was opened on July 22, 1890. Empress Auguste Viktoria was one of the first guests . The timber-framed house burned down on May 1st, 1906. In the summer of 1907, the local council decided to build the new stone Kurhaus according to the plans of the Berlin master builder Otto Spalding . The building became a landmark of the seaside resort.

In the 1920s, the community sold the Kurhaus together with the Hotel Kaiserhof for 165,000,000 Reichsmarks to Adalbert Kaba-Klein. The Kurhaus with vaudeville, casino and Kakadu bar was visited by wealthy guests such as industrialists, doctors, lawyers and artists at the time.

The National Socialists expropriated Kurhaus owner Kaba-Klein. In the course of the " Aryanization " in 1938, the Kurhaus was handed over to German compulsory trustees and later sold. With the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, the number of holidaymakers decreased; later, bomb victims and refugees also sought refuge in Binz. The Kurhaus survived the war undamaged and Russian soldiers and refugees were billeted. The displaced owner, Kaba-Klein, returned, and the Greifswald Regional Court awarded him the Kurhaus again. Because Kaba-Klein allegedly fed the miners' food rations to pigs, he was expropriated as part of Aktion Rose in 1953 and sentenced to ten years in prison. In 1955 the NVA took over the Kurhaus as a rest home for officers and long-serving soldiers.

In the 1960s, the GDR travel agency took over the Kurhaus. This made it open again for all Binz guests. The terrace was again managed with catering and an Intershop was created. Major events such as SED conferences and the opening of the Mukran-Klaipeda ferry connection took place in the Kurhaus hall .

After the reunification, the Kurhaus belonged to the "Travel Group" in Berlin, which arose from the former travel agency hotels. The Resort Hotel GmbH later bought the hotels from the Treuhand, the Travel Charme GmbH took over the operation. The spa house was reconstructed and modernized according to the original plans of the master builder Spalding. At the same time, the Kaiserhof was rebuilt and connected to the Kurhaus through a lobby and café glass house. It was the first hotel in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to receive the “five-star superior” award. The hotel returned this award in 2012 and has not been certified according to the official hotel star rating of the German Hotel and Restaurant Association since then .

gallery

  • Court of honor with concert space in front of the Kurhaus

  • Aerial view with Binz beach and pier

  • Beach view with beach volleyball arena

  • Night panorama

Web links

Commons : Kurhaus Binz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NDR: Kurhaus Binz: Without stars to more hotel guests. ( Memento of August 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) August 1, 2012.

Coordinates: 54 ° 24 ′ 7.1 ″  N , 13 ° 36 ′ 48 ″  E