Hotel Bristol (Berlin)

The Hotel Bristol was a renowned hotel in Berlin.

History

The Hotel Bristol was built in an era of economic boom and an ever-increasing travel and commerce. It was built between 1890-1891, designed by Gustav Georg Carl Gause for Conrad Uhl, and competing with this Central hotel (built 1880-1881 ) fifteen years after the then leading luxury hotel Kaiserhof (built 1873-1875 ). . For the construction of the Bristol two houses had to be demolished, which had been in possession of the secret commerzienrath Liebermann. It began with the address Unter den Linden 5-6; after 1936/37, the numbering of the building had been changed in this street, number 65 The hotel premises handed back to Behrenstraße 67

In 1904, the Hotel -Aktiengesellschaft acquired the Hotel Bristol ( Unter den Linden ). The company for the property Unter den Linden paid 10 million marks, while it took the prized 1.2 million marks book value of land Behrenstraße during the liquidation of the company Conrad Uhl 's Hotel Bristol AG.

1914 requested the then Chief Traugott von Jagow Achatz to provide all facilities with English and French names with German names; this arrangement for renaming was followed by some hotels. However, the hotel Bristol retained his name.

On February 15, 1944, allied air raid on Berlin destroyed the Hotel Bristol. After the Second World War, the Soviet Union built on the site of the former hotel its embassy in Berlin.

Today, the Kempinski Group operates a hotel Bristol on Kurfürstendamm.

Standard and benefits

The Hotel Bristol was considered one of the finest luxury hotels in the capital, Berlin. It had 1904 more than 350 rooms and a garden. A hotel expert described it in a 1905 guide book as " the most international " of the Berlin hotel, as with the " strongest social Finish" and certified that the high-priced hotel an " Anglo-American hegemony ." Later, the hotel has 515 salons, living, sleeping and Badezimmer.Darüber possessed him outside a restaurant and were connected in the thirties of the 20th century, the Bristol Bar. Likewise, it lent the later opened Bristol- pastry am Kurfürstendamm her name.

Known occurrences and guests

• On September 30, 1897 predecessor of the first international automobile exhibition was held at the Hotel Bristol. Eight cars were then presented.
• As of August 1, 1931 during his stay in Berlin lived George Bernard Shaw at the Hotel Bristol.
• On 27 February 1940, the German artist and architect Peter Behrens died at the Hotel Bristol in heart failure.

The Hotel Bristol in the literature

Was probably first mentioned in literature, the Hotel Bristol in Theodor Fontane's novel The Stechlin. The old Dubslav of Stechlin is quartered in Bristol, as he attends in Berlin his son's marriage with Countess Woldemar ARMGARD of Barby. Fontane leaves the old Stechlin Judging: All of the first rank, no doubt, what is more, me, the mere name exhilarated, of each competition recently virtually excludes [ ... ] as it was then with the jokes, so today with the hotels. All must ' Bristol ' hot. I am racking my brains as to how Bristol just happen. Bristol is but in the end only a place of the second rank, but Hotel Bristol is always great.

Vicki Baum gained her experience to the Roman people in the hotel in the 1920s as a chambermaid at the Hotel Bristol.