Estrel Hotel
The Estrel in Berlin, with 1125 rooms and a turnover of approximately 49.6 million euros in 2011, Germany's largest hotel. It is classified in the category DEHOGA 4 . It employs approximately 450 permanent employees. The Estrel not belong to any hotel chain, but is privately owned contractor Ekkehard Streletzki, who received the industry award Hotelier of the Year 2000 for the Estrel project. The name of the hotel dates back to the shortening of the name of the owner.
The hotel is located outside the city center on a sunny Allee City Rail Station in Neukölln on the edge of a commercial area and has its own railway siding for charter trains and a boat dock at the Neukölln shipping canal in the sun bridge for boat trips to the star and circle navigation.
The Estrel was partially opened on 14 October 1994, on 4 May 1995, finally, the official inauguration took place. In 1997, the Estrel Festival Centre, a converted factory building was attached to the hotel. There is daily ( except Mondays and Tuesdays ) the Stars in Concert show with impersonators of stars like Michael Jackson, Tina Turner and other place, which was visited by 2010 of more than 3.8 million guests. 1999, the building complex to the Estrel Convention Center was expanded, taking place in the 1600 annual events, including major sport events (such as championship boxing matches ), major fairs (such as the World Money Fair) and political events. The Convention Hall can accommodate up to 5,000 visitors. The 2006 planned further extension to a shopping center met with resistance from the Berlin Senate.
In March 2009, trainees from Estrel took over the hotel and restaurant in Schloss Britz. The apprentices act on their own responsibility and are supported by an Esterel manager and a cook. It thus is a unique nationwide training project.
The expansion of the complex is done with a hotel tower, scheduled to open in 2017. The Estrel Tower on neighboring property - the parking lot on the opposite side of the Sun Avenue - is expected to reach a height of 176 meters with 50 floors and 700 hotel rooms. This building will be the tallest building in Berlin and the highest German hotel. The winning design by the Berlin architectural office Barkow Leibinger was confirmed on 25 February 2014, the construction is scheduled to begin in 2015. The architects see a slender tower in front with a glass and metal facade and each room will receive a loggia as top seal an open-air terrace is provided with a bar. It also began the construction of a second congress and event hall along the Ziegrastraße 15-19, which borders a total of 4200 visitors places to the existing convention and event center. This new building, whose opening is scheduled for the summer of 2015, will include nearly 8500 square meters. Especially after losses to be bridged due to the renovation work to the existing complex. The planned investment volume for the new event complex is around 20 million euros. Construction is scheduled for the spring of 2014, the first phase will be completed in October 2014 and the second phase of construction in the summer of 2015.