Saxon Court (Dermbach)

The day before the planned opening

The inn before the start of the renovation (2009) - view from the north

The Gasthaus Sächsischer Hof is a hotel, inn and monument in the Rhön community of Dermbach in the Wartburg district in Thuringia . The building is on the corner of Bahnhofstrasse and Marktstrasse on the southern edge of Dermbach's old town.

The main building of the former Sächsischer Hof inn was built in 1623 as a representative two-story half-timbered building. In 1708, the owner at that time was granted a liquor license by Prince Abbot Adalbert von Schleifras . The house, one of the most famous inns in the Wartburg district, was extensively restored as early as 1901 and received a renewed half-timbered floor with carved beams. The St. Peter with key attached to the corner post is the landmark of the house.

Until the beginning of the Second World War , especially in the 1920s and 30s, recreational and sport anglers from Europe and overseas met here to fish for trout in the Felda . The writer Ernest Hemingway is said to have been a prominent guest at the inn in 1931 . Even during the GDR era, the Sächsischer Hof was still a popular place for meetings between people from the region and their relatives and friends from West Germany.

The structural condition of the house was already worrying in the 1990s, and there was also a decline in the number of visitors and holiday guests. The house was closed and because of the immense renovation costs, no investor could be found for the house at first; demolition in installments was threatened. The community finally managed to find a suitable buyer for the building complex through public relations work. In 2009, the general renovation of the building complex began as a Rhön hotel with a side wing used as a nursing home. The reopening of the hotel was scheduled to take place on September 9, 2012, after which the client had previously received a symbolic honorary award from the Wartburg district for the exemplary restoration of the monument. A burst pipe recently caused water damage, which delayed the opening date by several months.

literature

Hermann Helmbold Dermbach In: Lehfeldt, Paul / Voss, Georg (Hrsg.): Architectural and art monuments of Thuringia. Booklet XXXVII. Jena 1911, p. 154.

Web links

Commons : Sächsischer Hof (Dermbach) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Where Hemingway once fished ... - Rhönspiegel - the print and online magazine from the Rhön , June 2012 issue, p. 7

St. Peter greets from the corner beam

Individual evidence

↑ Hans Hoffmeister: New illustrated book reminds of Hemingway. Thüringische Landeszeitung, July 2, 2011, accessed on September 9, 2012 : "Perhaps there will also be a letter from the Thuringian Rhön in future editions, Hemingway is said to have fished and slept here, as they say in Dermbach."
^ Sächsischer Hof in balance again. Südthüringer Zeitung (editorial office Bad Salzungen), September 24, 2011, accessed on September 9, 2012 : “Ancillary buildings and extensions in the rear area that were demolished two years ago will be replaced by new buildings. (...) The overall project had to be partially redesigned because the planned nursing home cannot be built right next to the hotel. "
↑ Savior of the Saxon Court honored with monument award. Südthüringer Zeitung (editorial office Bad Salzungen), September 8, 2012, accessed on September 9, 2012 : “District Administrator Reinhard Krebs can well remember when he was still eating Thuringian dumplings there in the early 1990s. But then the tragedy about the beautiful half-timbered house began. Improper fixtures and fittings, vacancy, decay. For many years a solution was sought in order not to let the historic house completely fall into disrepair. "

50.7159 10.1199Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 57.2 " N , 10 ° 7 ′ 11.6" E

[TLZ-1] Hans Hoffmeister: New illustrated book reminds of Hemingway. Thüringische Landeszeitung, July 2, 2011, accessed on September 9, 2012 : "Perhaps there will also be a letter from the Thuringian Rhön in future editions, Hemingway is said to have fished and slept here, as they say in Dermbach."

[STZ20110924-2] Sächsischer Hof in balance again. Südthüringer Zeitung (editorial office Bad Salzungen), September 24, 2011, accessed on September 9, 2012 : “Ancillary buildings and extensions in the rear area that were demolished two years ago will be replaced by new buildings. (...) The overall project had to be partially redesigned because the planned nursing home cannot be built right next to the hotel. "

[STZ20120908-3] Savior of the Saxon Court honored with monument award. Südthüringer Zeitung (editorial office Bad Salzungen), September 8, 2012, accessed on September 9, 2012 : “District Administrator Reinhard Krebs can well remember when he was still eating Thuringian dumplings there in the early 1990s. But then the tragedy about the beautiful half-timbered house began. Improper fixtures and fittings, vacancy, decay. For many years a solution was sought in order not to let the historic house completely fall into disrepair. "