Wuppertaler Hof
The Wuppertaler Hof was until 1943 a hotel opposite the Barmer Station at Winkler Straße 5, now Wuppertal . The building is in close proximity to the Wuppertal Opera House . It now houses a senior center .
history
In the interwar period, entrepreneurs from Barmen developed the initiative to build a hotel in the city that met modern requirements. The Hotel-AG Wuppertal was founded for this purpose . The stock corporation had a capital of 1.5 million Reichsmarks (RM), the share of the city of Barmen was 750,000 RM, another 750,000 RM were subscribed by trade and industry. Entrepreneurs Ferdinand Thun and Henry Janssen from Wuppertal contributed to the construction costs of 3.5 million RM (excluding land costs) through their US company Textile Machine Works with a loan of 555,000 US dollars . At the beginning of 1928 an architectural competition was announced, the jury selected a design by the Berlin architects Richard Bielenberg and Josef Moser . Construction of the hotel began in 1929; the main contractor involved in the execution were Hugo Böckler and steel fabricators Chr. Döbberick in Barmen, the local construction supervision exercised Franz Kiwit out. A representative building with an arcade was created.
The Wuppertaler Hof was opened on May 2, 1931 . The entrance hall with adjoining hall with elegant furnishings and wood paneling had a reception office, a cloakroom, a book stand, a telephone switchboard with several intercoms, nine passenger and baggage lifts, a restaurant, a hotel bar, a pastry shop, a hunter's parlor, a wine bar, and a beer restaurant , a Bergische Bierstube, a terrace, writing and reading rooms, lounges, conference rooms, exhibition rooms and a ballroom with a stage. The total of 100 beds in the roughly 70 rooms on the first three upper floors were all equipped with running cold and warm water and a toilet. The restaurant on the ground floor was one of the most popular restaurants in Wuppertal.
During the air raid on Barmen on May 30, 1943, the Wuppertaler Hof burned down completely. Reconstruction began as early as 1948, after which the hotel reopened on November 13, 1954 on a smaller scale with 20 rooms. However, it could not be run economically in the long run. On June 2, 1977, the greater part of the building was converted into a senior citizens' home with space for 87 residents in three living areas and another part as an integrative center for people in the third phase of life . Together these facilities are now the “Altenzentrum Wuppertaler Hof”.
literature
- Horst Heidermann, Klaus Vollmer: Millionaires & Patrons. Ferdinand Thun and Heinrich Janssen from Barmen and Gustav Oberländer from Düren. Edition Köndgen, Wuppertal 2014, ISBN 978-3-939843-46-7 . P. 132f.
- Hinrich Heyken: 85 years in Wuppertal. City chronicle 1929-2014. Pp. 34, 57, 58, 64, 79, 104. In: stadtgeschichte-wuppertal.de
Web links
- Municipal center for the elderly, Wuppertaler Hof. In: wuppertal.de
- Municipal center for the elderly, Wuppertaler Hof. In: altenheime-wuppertal.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 4.2 " N , 7 ° 11 ′ 39.4" E