Seehotel on the Kaiserstrand
| Seehotel Am Kaiserstrand | |
|---|---|
| Hotel chain | RIMC Seehotel Am Kaiserstrand Hotel Betriebs GmbH |
| city | Lochau |
| address | At the Kaiserstrand 1 |
| Website | Wellness hotel Bodensee |
| Hotel information | |
| opening | 2010 |
| management | Managing partners: Marek N. Riegger and Audun Lekve |
| Classification | 4th |
| Awards | AMA Gastrosiegel, Ökoprofit®, Genusswirt Vorarlberg |
| Furnishing | |
| room | 102 |
| Restaurants | 1 |
| Bars | 1 |
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Coordinates: 47 ° 31 ′ 39.8 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 40.5" E
The Seehotel am Kaiserstrand (formerly Rhomberg Kaserne ) in the municipality of Lochau ( Vorarlberg , Austria ) with the inner courtyard is a listed building .
It is a multi-part structure with a gable roof and a crossed gable as well as a large number of dormers , some with castle-like battlements, "late romantic" balconies, oriels and rounded windows, which extends largely from north-west to south-east over a length of about 150 m and a width (with inner courtyard) of about 70 m.
location
The "Seehotel am Kaiserstrand" ( 398 m above sea level ) is located directly on the shore of Lake Constance on a 20,000 square meter site on a small bulge in the lake and provides public access to the beach. The Lochauer Dorfbach flows openly through the center of the Seehotel. On the occasion of the last major renovation, two blocks of flats in cubic form were built to the left and right of the historic building.
The hotel is about 600 m as the crow flies from the center of Lochau; a public footpath and bike path runs in front of the hotel along Lake Constance. A few meters in front of the hotel in a south-westerly direction is the municipal boundary between Lochau and Bregenz . This partially runs through the middle of the hotel's gardens. Bregenzer Straße (L 190) runs on the northeast side of the hotel complex.
history
In 1905 the "noble seat Maihof" was acquired by the later operator of the hotel, Georg Hauber († July 28, 1918), from Baron von Pöllnitz-Frankenstein and the "Zum Anker" inn from Josef and Theresia Hutter. In 1910 the north-west wing was built according to plans by the Bregenz master builder Otto Mallaun and it was opened on July 22, 1910. The first extension to the south wing was carried out in 1912 according to plans by the architect Willibald Braun . The naming as "Kaiser-Strand-Palast-Hotel" was approved by Emperor Franz Joseph I. himself. In 1917, Emperor Karl I and his wife Zita visited the hotel. In 1917 Georg Hauber went bankrupt, the hotel was closed and reopened in 1918 with new owners. In 1919 it was expanded and operated as the Strandhotel Lochau spa. In 1925 it was sold to the Association of Community Officials in Baden for 600,000 marks in order to set up a rest home for its members. From 1938 the hotel served briefly as emergency accommodation for refugees from the Sudetenland and in 1939 it was acquired by the German customs administration and converted into the Reich customs school by 1940. From 1942 to 1945 the building served as a reserve hospital for the German Wehrmacht , and from 1945 to 1953 for the French occupation troops stationed in Vorarlberg. From 1953 to 1997 the Austrian Armed Forces were in the complex, which has now been known as the "Rhomberg Barracks" since 1967. In 2005 the barracks were sold to private investors, renovated for around 45 million euros and in 2010 the hotel was resumed as the “Seehotel am Kaiserstrand”.
State of preservation
The state of preservation prescribed by the Federal Monuments Office corresponds to the use of the building as a Reichszollschule in 1942. However, the barracks fences were removed.
literature
- We present: The "Rhomberg-Kaserne" in Lochau. in: Lochau on Lake Constance. - Vol. 13 (1993), No. 49, pp. 235-239.
- Memory of the Landammann Thomas Rhomberg. Why there was a Rhomberg barracks in Lochau. in: Vorarlberger Nachrichten. No. 290 of December 16, 1967.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jutta Berger: Nazi architecture as usual in the Hotel am Bodensee , derStandard.at from November 30, 2007.
- ^ At that time operator of the Hotel Reutemann in Lindau .
- ↑ The Hutter family already offered accommodation and ran a bathing hut and a small dock for boats.
- ↑ From history: Kaiser-Strand-Hotel in Lochau 1910–2010 , vol.at of September 5, 2010.
- ↑ Erwin Bennat: '' Gemeindechronik Lochau '', published by the community of Lochau 1986, p. 109.
- ↑ The Landammann and Captain Thomas Rhomberg (1572 / 74–1647) from Dornbirn fought in the Thirty Years War at the Klause in Lochau against the Swedes and was killed in the process.
- ↑ Data largely based on: BDA barracks as a school project .