Elephant restaurant
The restaurant Elefant building in Schwerin , Altstadt district , Goethestrasse 39/41, is a monument in Schwerin .
history
In 1860 a low building for a pottery workshop was built on what was then Rostocker Straße . In 1870, the cigar manufacturer Homann added a three-story, ten-axis neoclassical building with a mezzanine , a simple guest room on the street side and a club room and the extension of today's elephant hall . The factory owner had an elephant on his tobacco boxes as a motif. Numerous stucco work and paintings with elephant motifs from this period have been preserved.
From 1884 to 1895 the house was used by C. H. Gertz as a tobacco and cigar factory. After the brewery owner Anton Feldtmann bought the house, a dance and concert hall in the style of the turn of the century with large windows was added in 1896. Opened Feldt's Restaurant and Feldt's beer hall , the mirror and elephant hall and a board operation. A humorous elephant club met in the club room.
From the 1950s there was the restaurant (temporarily not open to the public) and various uses of office space. Equipment details have been removed or covered. From the beginning of the 1990s there was a restaurant again and then a hotel. From 1995 to 1998 an extensive renovation resulted in older structures becoming visible or reconstructed.
literature
- Jürgen Borchert: Schwerin as it was. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-0951-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hotel Elefant: History of the house.
Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 41.3 ″ N , 11 ° 24 ′ 50 ″ E