Marquardtbau
The Marquardtbau on Stuttgart's Schloßplatz is a former hotel and now houses the comedy in the Marquardt . Today the building has around 20,000 m² of floor space and is used as an office, retail and cultural building.
Building history
Wilhelm Marquardt (1808–1886) had already bought Café Gauger on the corner plot of Königstraße / Bolzstraße (then: Schloßstraße) in 1857 and had it converted into a hotel. On Königstrasse opposite the Hotel Marquardt, Wilhelm Marquardt's brother Johann Christian Marquardt had founded the Café Marquardt as early as 1844 , which was a popular social meeting place in Stuttgart until 1893.
After the Hotel Marquardt had developed into one of the leading hotels in Germany, the expansion took place from 1872. For this purpose, two neighboring buildings were demolished; one of them was the house of Nikolaus von Thourets .
The new building, now called Marquardtbau, was built between 1872 and 1874 according to plans by the architect August Beyer . The facade contains elements from the Renaissance , High Renaissance and Baroque eras , but the location - at that time right next to the train station - and the equipment, including a bell system personally installed by Robert Bosch , was state of the art.
In 1895–1896, Ludwig Eisenlohr and Carl Weigle added a wing to the hotel on Königstrasse under Hermann and Otto Marquardt . 150 rooms were now available to guests. The “Golden Festsaal”, in which the comedy in the Marquardt is housed today, also comes from this construction phase.
During the Second World War , the Marquardtbau was almost completely destroyed in 1944 and was rebuilt in 1947/1948 under the new owner Eugen Mertz . However, the architect Werner Gabriel gave it simpler forms than the previous building. The building was no longer conceived as a hotel, but as a commercial building with a cinema and theater hall. Between 1956 and 1958 there were renovations. Today the Marquardtbau is a listed building .
The hotel
The Hotel Marquardt existed until 1938. After such illustrious guests as Richard Wagner , whose stays are commemorated by a plaque on the facade towards Königstrasse, Franz Liszt , who gave a concert here in 1860, Otto von Bismarck , Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin , who lived here in 1890 demonstrated its first airship model , which had hosted Jean Jaurès , Vandervelde and Count Helmuth von Moltke, it had to close under the pressure of the economic crisis and competition from the “Graf Zeppelin” hotel .
Web links
- Brief information about the building on the website of the City of Stuttgart
- Hotel and building history on the website of the Katholisches Bildungswerk Stuttgart
literature
- Uwe Bogen (text); Stefan Bukovsek (photos): The Königstrasse. Where Stuttgart's heart beats. Gudensberg-Gleichen 2006, pages 43–45.
- Uwe Bogen (text); Thomas Wagner (photos): Stuttgart. A city changes its face. Erfurt 2012, pages 8–9.
- Ernst Marquardt: The Hotel Marquardt in Stuttgart 1840–1938. An attempt at company and family history. (with a preliminary remark by R. Vierhaus) Part I in: Tradition. Journal for company history and entrepreneur biography, 10, 1965, p. 49.
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 46.8 ″ N , 9 ° 10 ′ 45.1 ″ E