Parkhotel (Dusseldorf)

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Parkhotel, view over Landskrone in the Hofgarten, 1909
Steigenberger Parkhotel and Kaufhof an der Kö , view from the Kö-Bogen over Landkrone, 2016

The Parkhotel (today Steigenberger Parkhotel Düsseldorf ) is located on Königsallee 1a in Düsseldorf - city ​​center . The listed Grand Hotel , formerly operating under the address Corneliusplatz 1, borders directly on the southwestern edge of the Hofgarten and is only about 100 m from the old town .

history

Park-Hôtel-AG in Düsseldorf from October 1st, 1900

Park-Hôtel-AG was founded in 1900 to build and operate a luxury hotel in Düsseldorf. The middle part of the hotel building was built for the Düsseldorf industrial and commercial exhibition , which took place in 1902, from 1901 to 1902 based on designs by the architects Kayser & von Großheim and Max Wöhler .

“The execution was in the hands of Ph. Holzmann & Co. in Frankfurt aM for the entire structural work and the simpler stucco and carpentry work, by H.Pallenberg in Cologne a. Rh. For the decorative furnishing of reception rooms, restaurants and salons. The house contains 90 rooms with 120 beds. The utility rooms are in the basement. In addition to a large vestibule, the ground floor contains a hall, ladies' room, writing and reading room, the restoration rooms and offices. The rest of the floor has been converted into shops. On the three upper floors, salons, bedrooms and bathrooms are arranged in such a way that two to five rooms can be closed off by an entrance door, thus creating apartments for longer stays. On each floor there are rooms for accompanying servants. The house has solid ceilings, low-pressure steam heating, hot water pipes and electric light. The elevators are operated hydraulically. The luggage elevator is directly accessible from the street. The construction costs amount to 850,000 Mk. "

- Architectural review, 1903

At the beginning of October 1903, the 28-year-old writer Thomas Mann stayed in the hotel. He processed impressions of his stay in the novel Royal Highness . In 1912 Wöhler expanded the north and south wings. In 1932 Adolf Hitler gave a speech in the Park Hotel in front of the Industry Club , which is still based there today. From 1936 to 1939, a large hall was created by building over the courtyards according to plans by the architects Karl Wach and Heinrich Rosskotten . In the post-war period the building was rebuilt, with the fourth floor being built as a recessed mansard floor. The building was entered in the list of monuments due to the “good facade design and urban significance”. The facades show "Italian Renaissance forms" and are made of Hoheleg tuff. The last major renovation, combined with a modernization of the hotel, was carried out in 2012.

Trivia

Because the serial killer Peter Kürten claimed to have sucked the blood from a swan chick after a fatal neck cut in the courtyard garden in front of the Parkhotel, the tabloid press of the Weimar Republic gave him the nickname The Vampire of Düsseldorf .

  • Parkhotel Eckrisalit (1903)

  • Parkhotel floor plan (1901)

  • Vestibule (1902)

  • Restaurant (1902)

  • Wall in the restaurant (1902)

  • The Parkhotel before it was destroyed in the Second World War

  • The park hotel, rebuilt in a simplified way, with construction site for the underground railway extension and Kö-Bogen (2011)

  • The President of Pakistan, Mohammad Ayub Khan with Prime Minister Franz Meyers in front of the Parkhotel

  • Hotel for the 2012 Bambi awards

  • Hotel 2013

  • Steigenberger Parkhotel Düsseldorf, as of May 2014

Furnishing

The five-star hotel currently has 119 rooms and 11 suites. Seven conference rooms are available as well as several restaurants and a bar. The hotel also has a modern spa with fitness area, sauna and steam bath.

Companies

The hotel was acquired in 2004 by the Steigenberger Hotel Group , which at that time still belonged to the Steigenberger family. In 2009 the Hotel Group was sold to the Egyptian Travco Group , which continues to run the company and the Parkhotel under the name Steigenberger .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
  2. ^ Gert Heine, Paul Schommer: Thomas Mann Chronicle . Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-465-03235-7 , p. 31 ( online )
  3. ^ Jörg Heimeshoff : Listed houses in Düsseldorf. Nobel, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-922785-68-9 , pp. 83-84.
  4. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 309.

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 36.3 "  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 42.8"  E