Splendid Hotel

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The Splendid Hotel around 1910

The Splendid Hotel is a former hotel in Berlin , which was one of the better-known Berlin hotels in the Wilhelmine era. It is located in today's district of Mitte in Dorotheenstrasse 92/93 and was renamed the Schloß-Hotel in 1914 . The hotel ran from 1904 to 1918.

A new building in neo-baroque style

The Splendid Hotel was located in Berlin-Mitte at Dorotheenstraße 92/93 (today: No. 37)

The property at Dorotheenstrasse No. 92/93 (later numbering: 77/78, today: No. 37) belonged to the bandage dealer H. Loewy, who had a new building built there in 1904 by the architecture firm Gronau & Graul in a neo-baroque style with Art Nouveau elements .

The facade of the building, which is now a listed building and which survived the destruction of the Second World War , adorns a. a. the central projection supported by mythological atlases . There are three cartridges in the central axis . Inside, the stairwells and some room doors give an impression of the original decorative interior.

In 1904, the Hotel Splendid , under the direction of James Norden, began operations in the rooms of the sophisticated new five-story building . A Berlin guide from 1905 elicited the comment - probably with a view to its Art Nouveau elements - “the latest Berlin style”.

Standard and services

The Splendid Hotel described itself in its advertising as a “first-rate house” and advertised its proximity to the Friedrichstrasse train station . The hotel described its location as follows: “1 minute from Friedrichstrasse station. [...] Quietest, best, most elegant location, in the immediate vicinity of the Königl. Theater, zoo and all sights ”.

It was one of the smaller hotels and had 65 rooms in a medium price range. A wine restaurant and a hairdressing salon were located on the ground floor of the hotel building. The hotel promised its guests “all comfort, moderate room rates, elevator, central heating”.

Patriotic renaming

After Great Britain declared war on the German Reich and the beginning of the First World War , the then Berlin police chief Traugott Achaz von Jagow demanded in 1914 that all facilities be given English and French names with German names. This arrangement was followed by the Hotel Splendid : The hotel was renamed the Schloß-Hotel .

The hotel was closed in 1918

In 1918, the hotel was closed and the rooms were rented out to various businesses as business and office space. The Viennese castle restaurant on the ground floor of the building continued to exist in the following years.

The subsequent use of the site

From 1925 to 1933 the former hotel building u. a. the Red Aid Germany based. In the communist era , the Bank of Agriculture and food industry took advantage of the house. After German reunification in the 1990s, the interior of the building was rebuilt. Today there is a delicatessen shop named after the former hotel and a travel agency on the ground floor of the house . The current address of the building is Dorotheenstraße 37.

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  • Advertisement of the Splendid Hotel, 1905

  • View into a salon of the Splendid Hotel, around 1910

  • The building of the former Splendid Hotel is a listed building , 2014

  • The entrance to the building at Dorotheenstrasse 37 and the richly decorated central projectile .

  • Female atlas figure on the portal lower left.

  • Male atlas figure on the portal lower right.

  • The name of the former hotel can still be seen on the facade of the building at Dorotheenstrasse 37 today

literature

  • Anonymous: Berlin and the Berliners. People, things, customs, hints. J. Bielefelds publishing house.
  • Karl Baedeker : Berlin and the surrounding area. Guide for travelers. Verlag Karl Baedeker, 18th ed. Leipzig 1914.
  • Bodo-Michael Baumunk: Grand Hotel. In: The trip to Berlin. Ed. I. A. of the Berlin Senate for the exhibition of the same name, Berlin 1987. P. 192 ff.
  • Wolfgang Bernhagen / Heinz Schlottke: From inn to luxury hotel. A journey through Berlin's hotel history - from the beginning to the present. Edited by the General Directorate of the Interhotel DDR, o. O. o. J. [1988].
  • Renate Düttmann: Berlin inns of the 18th and 19th centuries. In: The trip to Berlin. Ed. I. A. of the Berlin Senate for the exhibition of the same name, Berlin 1987. pp. 181–191.
  • Peter Güttler: List of hotel buildings. In: Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (ed.): Berlin and its buildings. Published by Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin, Munich, Düsseldorf 1980. Part VIII Buildings for trade and commerce. Volume B.
  • Wolfgang Müller: Hotel buildings. In: Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (ed.): Berlin and its buildings. Published by Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin, Munich, Düsseldorf 1980. Part VIII Buildings for trade and commerce. Volume B Hospitality. Pp. 1-38.
  • Hasso Noorden: German big city hotels . In: Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte, Vol. 24, Issue 1, pp. 42–55.
  • Hans-Christian Täubrich: A guest in old Berlin. Memories of the old Berlin hospitality with hotel palaces, entertainment bars, excursion restaurants and distilleries. Verlag Hugendubel 1990. ISBN 3-88034-482-5 .
  • Volker Wagner: The Dorotheenstadt in the 19th century: from the suburban residential area of ​​baroque style to part of the modern Berlin city. Verlag De Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1998. Publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin, Vol. 94. ISBN 3-11-015709-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. the Berlin district lexicon of Edition Luisenstadt, Mitte district, keyword: Hotel Splendid : [1]
  2. ↑ cf. Anonymous: Berlin and the Berliners. People, things, customs, hints. Verlag J. Bielefelds, p. 429.
  3. ↑ cf. Karl Baedeker: Berlin and the surrounding area. Guide for travelers. Verlag Karl Baedeker, 18th edition Leipzig 1914, p. 6.
  4. ↑ So the advertising text of the Hotel Splendid on a postcard from around 1905.
  5. ↑ cf. the Berlin district lexicon of Edition Luisenstadt, Mitte district, keyword: Hotel Splendid : [2]

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '7 "  N , 13 ° 23' 22"  E