Reichshof Hamburg

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Reichshof Hamburg, Curio Collection by Hilton
Hotel chain Hilton Hotels
city GermanyGermany Hamburg
address Kirchenallee
Website Official website
Hotel information
opening 1910
building listed
Classification 4 star superior
Furnishing
room 278
Restaurants 2
Bars 1
Photo of the hotel

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 17.2 ″  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 30.7 ″  E The Hotel Reichshof is a classicist , upper-class hotel openedin1910at Hamburg's main train station near the Deutsches Schauspielhaus . It was closed from the end of May 2014 to July 2015, was renovated andreopenedas a four-star hotel with the addition of Superior. Since then it has been operating as "Reichshof Hamburg, Curio Collection by Hilton".

history

The foundation stone for the building complex was laid in 1906. At that time the property was still on vacant land, the main train station opposite was just being built. The founder and builder of the Hotel Reichshof was Anton-Emil Langer (1864–1928), former kitchen director on the ocean liners of the shipping company HAPAG . The family already owned the "Esplanade" hotel and 27 other hotels and guest houses. A good friend of Langers, the shipowner and HAPAG general director Albert Ballin , who, as the former head of passenger services, had in-depth knowledge of the cruise business , also had an influence on the design of the Hotel Reichshof .

After the death of Anton-Emil Langer, his wife Martha, b. Bretschneider (1884–1973) the house, from 1968 the youngest son Herbert-Emil (1919–1983), after his death his second wife Ingeborg (born 1938). After the hotel was sold in 1989, she lived in the family estate until old age on the Elbe.

The construction took place according to the plans of the architect Heinrich ("Hendrik") Mandix , who designed the building in the reform style with baroque and classicist echoes. When it opened in 1910, it was one of the largest hotels in Europe and at that time the largest hotel in Germany. It was named in honor of Kaiser Wilhelm II . With running water, electricity and telephone connections in every room, it had state-of-the-art equipment. The car garage and hydraulic elevators were also groundbreaking technology. 50 rooms even had a "private bathroom". At the time, the Reichshof was the first hotel to introduce unit prices for overnight stays - at the time, an overnight stay with breakfast cost 3.50 marks per person.

In 1989, during construction work, a hidden "silver treasure" made up of several thousand parts was found in a room that had been walled up until then. During the war, the previous owners had apparently brought the hotel silver there to safety: silver cutlery, heavy flambé pans and serving plates, champagne coolers and complete porcelain furnishings, some in the finest Art Nouveau style , some of which were exhibited in 2011.

From 1989, the hotel was operated by the “Maritim” hotel chain with managing director Gerd Prochaska. Hotel director has been Ralf Adamczyk since 2008. The house was run as a four-star hotel and last had around 100 employees when the lease expired at the end of May 2014 and was not extended by Maritim. The French Accor group (then 16 hotels in Hamburg) and the event hotel group from Cologne, with which the US investment company Blackstone (including Hilton Hotels) worked together in 2007 on the purchase of the former GDR Interhotels, were interested in the property would have. After the property was sold to Blackstone in 2014, the hotel was renovated for over 30 million euros.

Furnishing

Until 2014, the hotel had 303 rooms with 15 to 35 square meters on six floors, including two suites with 45 square meters and a “St. Pauli themed room” with a total of 465 beds. It was equipped with a swimming pool, sauna and steam bath. There were also 14 conference and banquet rooms with modern conference technology for up to 400 people.

When it reopens in 2015, there are 278 guest rooms, 6 junior suites and 3 one-bedroom suites, 10 conference and meeting rooms as well as a spa and fitness area.

gastronomy

The "Stadt Restaurant" is called the "heart of the house". The dining room was designed by the ship outfitters Friese from Kiel, who had already fitted out the Cap Polonio , with wood paneling and a surrounding gallery like a restaurant on a cruise ship . The water is drawn from the in-house, 160-meter-deep well, built in 1937. The hotel bar was built in the 1920s in the Art Deco style and restored for the reopening in 2015. There is no executive lounge in the Reichshof , as is common in many hotels in the Hilton Group .

Monument protection

The building was only slightly destroyed in World War II and is now a listed building . A large part of the old style elements have been preserved in their original form to this day: from the furniture to the tiles and candlesticks to the wood-paneled booths . In the entrance area there are columns made of Italian marble, heavy chandeliers and elaborate woodwork.

  • Reception 01

  • Reception 02

  • Dining room 01

  • Dining room 02

  • Memorial plaque Emil Langer

literature

  • Erich Lüth : The Hotel Reichshof. A Hamburg family history 1910–1985. Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg 1985, OCLC 256540244 .
  • Dautel, Julia; Keller, Nicole; Schumacher, Oliver: Hotel Reichshof Hamburg. A big house as a stage for time; a legendary hotel and its story , Tübingen Berlin 2015, OCLC 932126004

Web links

Commons : Hotel Reichshof (Hamburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Crusader Investments BV: Welcome to the Reichshof Hotel Hamburg • CURIO Collection by Hilton. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Biography in the Hamburger Frauenbiografien database on hamburg.de
  3. ↑ Biography and illustration of the family grave
  4. ↑ Dautel, Julia; Keller, Nicole; Schumacher, Oliver: Hotel Reichshof Hamburg. A big house as a stage for time; a legendary hotel and its story , Tübingen Berlin 2015, pp. 14–20.
  5. ↑ Ms. Langer's jewel on the Elbe. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. March 13, 2004.
  6. ↑ Retired hotel manager celebrates with 80 friends . In: Die Welt , Hamburg, from October 20, 2018
  7. ↑ The silver treasure in the hotel cellar. In: The world. February 8, 2011.
  8. ↑ Reichshof closes at the end of May. In: The world. 3rd February 2014.
  9. ↑ Comeback of a Hamburg grand hotel. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. January 22, 2015
  10. ↑ The Hotel Reichshof Hamburg will reopen today ( Memento from February 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  11. ↑ a b Hilton Group opens first hotel in Hamburg - Curio by Hilton Reichshof in a historic building. TrendJam Magazine, accessed July 16, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Dautel, Keller, Schumacher, p. 16.
  13. ↑ Dautel, Keller, Schumacher, p. 16.
  14. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Hamburg. Retrieved July 27, 2020 . (PDF; 11.3 MB) of the protected monuments of the city of Hamburg, No. 29227