Castle hotel in the Grunewald

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The Schlosshotel im Grunewald in Berlin district of Grunewald is a 5 star - deluxe hotel , which in an old and traditional villa , the Palais Pannwitz is housed.

history

The house, which is spacious even by Grunewald standards, was commissioned in 1911 by the Munich celebrity lawyer and art collector Walter von Pannwitz from the Nuremberg-based architect German Bestelmeyer , who was then active in Dresden , but the client helped to design it in every detail. The occasion was the marriage with his former client Catalina Roth and to provide the couple's art collections with a suitable framework. After two years of construction, in early 1914, the palace was completed in the style of the Italian Renaissance . The total construction costs were around five million marks (Adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 20.2 million euros), an enormous sum for a private property at the time.

The von Pannwitz family held lavish parties there. Kaiser Wilhelm II is also said to have liked to come to the Pannwitz house on his rides in the Grunewald . After the end of the First World War , the von Pannwitz family followed the emperor into exile in Holland , where they acquired De Hartekamp Castle near Bennebroek . On a trip to the Argentine possessions, Walter von Pannwitz fell ill and died in 1920, after which the palace in Grunewald remained largely uninhabited for over 20 years. After the emperor's death, Catalina von Pannwitz, who was not sympathetic to National Socialism, emigrated to Switzerland and sold her Berlin property to the German state for 1.5 million Reichsmarks . A cousin of Walter von Pannwitz made sure that the building was not converted into a public office building (as planned), but was handed over unchanged to the newly formed state of Croatia as an embassy .

After the end of World War II , the German housekeeper prevented the abandoned embassy from being plundered by Soviet troops by raising the flag of the friendly state of Yugoslavia in the garden with her presence of mind. As a result, the original magnificent interior of the building was largely preserved. In 1951 the restaurateur Wolfgang Gehrhus leased the building and set up a luxury hotel in it. In the 1960s and 1970s, everything of standing and name met in the Schlosshotel Gehrhus , and it was often used as a backdrop for filming.

After the death of Wolfgang Gehrhus in 1984, the property fell into disrepair. In 1991 the city of Berlin was looking for a buyer. A community of Berlin families acquired the listed building and redesigned it. Karl Lagerfeld was responsible for the design . In 1994 it was reopened as the Schlosshotel Vier Jahreszeiten with 54 guest rooms. In 1999 it was renamed Schloßhotel Ritz-Carlton Berlin , in 2002 in The Regent Schlosshotel Berlin , in 2004 in Schlosshotel im Grunewald and in 2006 in Alma Berlin - Schlosshotel im Grunewald . Since January 2014 the castle hotel in Grunewald has been a member of Relais & Châteaux under the BR10 Grunewald Betriebs GmbH . In 2015 the Schlosshotel in Grunewald was renamed Patrick Hellmann Schlosshotel and received a redesign from the international fashion designer Patrick Hellmann.

During the 2006 World Cup , the German national soccer team was based in the Schlosshotel, which was then headed by Uta Felgner . The piece of paper for goalkeeper Jens Lehmann in the 2006 World Cup penalty shoot-out against Argentina , which was auctioned for one million euros, was labeled “Schlosshotel im Grunewald”.

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  1. ↑ Can a Berlin men's tailor really also be a hotel manager? In: BZ , February 4, 2018

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 49.2 "  N , 13 ° 16 ′ 27.8"  E