Maritim Grand Hotel Hannover

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Grandhotel Maritim
Hotel chain Maritim Hotelgesellschaft (formerly)
city GermanyGermany Hanover
address Friedrichswall 11 ,
30159 Hanover
Hotel information
opening November 1965
closure 2014
Classification 4 stars
Furnishing
room 285 rooms as well as the presidential suite under the roof
Photo of the hotel

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 11.2 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 21.5"  E

The Grandhotel Maritim , also: Maritim Grand Hotel , is a hotel building built in the center of the Lower Saxony state capital Hanover opposite the New Town Hall . Built in the 1960s in the brutalist style, the approximately 100-meter-long and 7-story high- rise block was the first major hotel to be built in Hanover after the Second World War . The location is Friedrichswall 11 in Hanover's Mitte district . The building is currently (as of April 2018) used as refugee accommodation, but is to become a hotel again after renovation.

History and description

Hotel Intercontinental

After a broad connection between the New City Hall and the city center had been planned for decades in the first half of the 20th century, these plans were made in the early 1960s in favor of the planned construction of a large hotel by the US airline Pan American World Airways (Pan Am). given up. However, the heritable building rights of the city of Hanover secured a possible later resumption of these urban planning considerations.

Thus arose in the years 1963-1965 for the run by the PANAM hotel chain Intercontinental Hotel & Resorts on the sites of several former villas and on the site of the demolished Arts School Hannover , the Hotel Intercontinental by the architectural firm ABB, in Frankfurt -based architect Otto Apel and Hannsgeorg Beckert together with the engineer Gilbert Becker .

The interior of the hotel - which was later replaced - was partly designed by the artist Werner Schreib ; However, the sculptor's concrete relief Monument for Travelers, Monument for Travelers, Monument pour Voyageurs from 1965 has been preserved on the outer facade . The Hotel Intercontinental opened on November 4, 1965.

Maritim Grand Hotel

The Maritim Grand Hotel on Friedrichswall , seen in May 2014 from the tower of the New Town Hall in Hanover
Concrete relief Monument for Travelers by the sculptor Werner Schreib from 1965;
in October 2012 in the hotel's outdoor facilities

In 1995, after around three decades, the Maritim hotel chain acquired the hotel building from the 1960s for around 35 million marks. The 4-star hotel was renovated in the year of Expo 2000 . After the Maritim chain had sold its hotel on Hildesheimer Straße to Dormero Hotel AG in 2009, it looked in vain at the beginning of the 21st century, first from the state of Lower Saxony and then from the state capital Hanover, for a guarantee for a multi-million dollar renovation at the same time renovation of the house to be carried out. In 2013, the Maritim chain then negotiated an extension of the heritable building right contract, which had only been concluded until 2023, in order to renovate the facade in return, although the overall financing was still unclear. In 2014, the Maritim chain finally decided to sell the building, in which 92 employees worked full-time and part-time at the time. After the sale of both Hanoverian hotels, the group wanted to concentrate on the Maritim Airport Hotel operated at Hanover Airport in Langenhagen .

Refugee shelter

After the new owner of the building on Friedrichswall that the Berlin Intown group belonging Friedrichswall GmbH , will likely begin until 2018 with a total renovation of the hotel building, the city of Hanover was able to rent the house for up to that more than 5 million Euros to the house - to the beginning of the refugee crisis - temporarily to set up the hitherto largest refugee accommodation in Hanover for around 550 refugees - with the German Red Cross (DRK) as the operating company.

Refurbishment after the refugees moved out

In April 2018 it was announced that the Intown Group had submitted a building application for the renovation of the hotel building.

Web links

Commons : Maritim Grand Hotel (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Andreas Voigt: Maritim-Grand-Hotel: Concrete block with a new future? / Hanover loses the next Maritim Hotel: The group of companies has decided to sell the Grand Hotel opposite the New Town Hall - it has recently been offered on the real estate market , on the website of the daily newspaper Neue Presse on April 24, 2014, last accessed on 15th March 2017
  2. ↑ Conrad von Meding, right: Empty Hotel / Why the light is still on in the Maritim on the page of the daily newspaper Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) from January 14, 2016, last accessed on March 15, 2017
  3. ↑ a b c d e Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Friedrichswall 11 , 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. 114
  4. ↑ Compare, for example, the photo documentation at Wikimedia Commons
  5. ↑ Compare, for example, the photo documentation at Wikimedia Commons
  6. ↑ top v .: maritim-grand-hotel-hannover.hotel-in-hannover.com/de , last accessed on March 15, 2017
  7. ^ Conrad von Meding: Refugee accommodation / garbage problem: rat infestation at the old Maritim-Hotel ... on the HAZ website from February 5, 2017, updated on February 8, 2017, last accessed on March 15, 2017
  8. ↑ Vera König: Hanover: Intown wants the hotel renovation. In: www.neuepresse.de. Neue Presse , April 6, 2018, accessed April 6, 2018 .