Unter den Linden (hotel)

Hotel Unter den Linden , 1979

Hotel Unter den Linden , 1993

The Unter den Linden was a hotel operated by Interhotel (from 1992 by Interhotel AG) in Berlin-Mitte from 1966 to 2006 .

Prehistory of the location

The " Hotel Victoria " was opened in 1859 on the site of Unter den Linden 14 at the corner of Friedrichstrasse and belonged to a descendant of the first owner, Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765–1812). Friedrichstrasse station was opened in 1882 . Many hotels and amusement facilities have settled in the vicinity of the station. On February 3, 1945, a bombing raid left an area about halfway destroyed.

History of the hotel

As a result of the GDR planning for the city center from 1961/62, which envisaged upgrading Friedrichstrasse as a pedestrian zone to 60 meters wide, an eight-story hotel was built between 1964 and 1966 based on a design by the architects Boy, Riechert, Scharlipp and Vieroth. On June 10, 1966 the house was opened with more than 340 single and double rooms. The sculpture of a flower girl by the sculptor Christa Collector was in the hotel lobby . The wrought iron cladding of the elevators was designed by Fritz Kühn .

At the beginning of 2006 the building was demolished in favor of a new building, the Upper Eastside Berlin building complex completed in 2008 .

literature

"Berlin. Architecture from Pankow to Köpenick", VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin, 1987

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ See the damage plan of the "planning collective" , printed in Johann Friedrich Geist , Klaus Kürvers : Das Berliner Mietshaus 1945–1989. Prestel Verlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7913-0719-3 (= Third Part of the History of the Berlin Apartment Building ), p. 274
^ "The Friedrichstrasse, History & Stories"; Ed .: Berlin Information, 750th Anniversary Celebration 1987
↑ For the planning from 1961/62 see: Hans Gericke: Berlin - Unter den Linden , in: Deutsche Bauakademie und Bund Deutscher Architekten (ed.): Deutsche Architektur , XI. Volume, Berlin, November 1962, pp. 635–640

52.517222222222 13.389166666667Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '2 " N , 13 ° 23' 21" E

[1] See the damage plan of the "planning collective" , printed in Johann Friedrich Geist , Klaus Kürvers : Das Berliner Mietshaus 1945–1989. Prestel Verlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7913-0719-3 (= Third Part of the History of the Berlin Apartment Building ), p. 274

[2] "The Friedrichstrasse, History & Stories"; Ed .: Berlin Information, 750th Anniversary Celebration 1987

[3] For the planning from 1961/62 see: Hans Gericke: Berlin - Unter den Linden , in: Deutsche Bauakademie und Bund Deutscher Architekten (ed.): Deutsche Architektur , XI. Volume, Berlin, November 1962, pp. 635–640