Savoy Hotel (Berlin)
The Savoy Hotel in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg was built in 1929 by the architect Heinrich Straumer . It is on Fasanenstrasse , a side street off Kurfürstendamm .
history
The Savoy was the first Berlin hotel in which every room had its own bathroom and an electric maid call. The architectural style is kept simple and elegant. When the Japanese embassy in Berlin-Tiergarten was bombed out by Allied air raids during World War II , the employees used individual rooms in the hotel from 1943 to 1945 as replacements. The Savoy survived the war undamaged. In 1945 and 1946 it served the United Kingdom as its headquarters in the occupied city. At the beginning of the 1950s, the Savoy was one of the first in Berlin to be re-used as a hotel. In 1957 it was expanded by 30 rooms and a bar, which was named Times Bar in 1984 . It is one of the classics of the Berlin bar scene, has its own library and a wide range of Cuban cigars. In the 1980s, the so-called ' Bel Etage ' was built on the sixth floor with twelve air-conditioned rooms and roof terraces with a view of the city.
Prominent guests
In the course of its history, the Savoy Hotel has had many prominent guests such as Maria Callas , Romy Schneider , Greta Garbo and Helmut Newton to visit. Romy Schneider lived there in the 1950s while filming When the White Lilacs Blossom Again . Well-known writers such as the American author Henry Miller , who visited the hotel in the 1960s, and the German Nobel Prize winners Thomas Mann and Heinrich Böll were regular guests.
Others
There was already a hotel of the same name in Berlin at the turn of the century. It was located at Friedrichstrasse 103, where the Admiralspalast stands today.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 22 ″ N , 13 ° 19 ′ 39 ″ E