Palace hotel
As a palace hotel or palace hotel , hotels of the higher categories are referred to, which were mostly built at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century and based on the palace buildings of earlier centuries in terms of architecture and garden design. Many of these buildings had and still have the expression palace in their name, while the grand hotels emphasize size rather than attraction.
history
The development of the modern means of transport, the railroad and steamboat, stimulated tourism along the railway lines and shipping routes. Many palace hotels therefore emerged as railway hotels along railway lines or attractive coastlines. Classic places for palace hotels include the French and Italian Riviera , St. Moritz , Biarritz , Semmering and Abbazia . The Hotel Badischer Hof in Baden-Baden, built by Friedrich Weinbrenner between 1807 and 1809, is considered the first palace hotel in Germany . With the advent of mass tourism and the more egalitarian distribution of income after the Second World War, many of the classic, extremely labor-intensive palace hotels in developed countries got into difficulties, but palace hotels are still being built today, such as the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi .
literature
- Isabelle Rucki: The hotel in the Alps. The history of the Upper Engadine hotel architecture from 1860-1914 . gta, Zurich 1989. ISBN 3-250-50108-5 .
- Maria Wenzel: Palace Hotels in Germany. Olms, Hildesheim 1991, ISBN 3-487-09534-3 .
- Marie-Julie Weckerle: Palace Hotels on the Cote d'Azur - Power of a Myth . Diploma thesis 2005. GRIN Verlag , Passau 2010, ISBN 978-3-640-51868-5 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Individual evidence
- ^ Maria Wenzel: Palasthotels in Deutschland , pp. 82–86.