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Ritter’s Park Hotel

The main building of the hotel, located at Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade 69, was built from 1854 to 1856 according the designs drafted by Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg as a residence for Georg Deininger, the owner of the spa restaurant. Konrad Ritter acquired it in 1883 and built a hotel. In the years following, he gradually expanded to the surrounding buildings. In 1883, along the Lower Promenade he had a magnificent wing built with a terrace and halls. He acquired the former Hotel des Anglais in 1891, located at Kisseleffstraße 13 and already structurally connected to the corner building of Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade 69. In 1898, from Thomas Escribens he bought the neighboring building on the promenade (later no. 71) and in 1909 the adjacent villas located at Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade 73 and 75. That same year, Ritter commissioned Louis Jacobi to unify these buildings and connect them to the existing hotel. This created a prestigious hotel complex, which became the first building on the square as well as Homburg’s most famous spa hotel, which attracted lots of prominent guests. Its name came from its proximity to the Kurpark spa park. During the First World War, it was used as a rest home for officers. In the early 1920s, the hotel business was restarted, but the end of the monarchy, the global economic crisis, and the loss of importance of society spas caused the number of visitors to stagnate. With massive debts, Karl Ritter had to sell the company to the German Reich in 1942, which then used it as a rest home for the Waffen SS. Neither the reopening of the hotel by the American occupiers in 1947 nor its takeover by the Steigenberger Hotel Group in 1956 could establish a connection with the glitz and gloss of earlier years. In 1977, the hotel had to close for commercial reasons, and the buildings fell into decay. In its place, Hotel Steigenberger was reopened in 1991.

Illustrations (titles and descriptions in German)

Ritter’s Park-Hotel in Bad Homburg
Aufnahme von 1896
(Photographs, contemporary)

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Ritter’s Park-Hotel in Bad Homburg
Aufnahme von 1858
(Photographs, contemporary)

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Ritter's Park-Hotel - Vestibule-Halle
(Photographs, contemporary)

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Ritter's Park-Hotel - Ein Theil der Wandelhalle
(Photographs, contemporary)

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Ritter's Park-Hotel - Engl. u. Deutsch. Billardsalon
(Photographs, contemporary)

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Ritter's Park-Hotel - Conversations-Säle
(Photographs, contemporary)

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Ritter's Park-Hotel - Salon der Grossfürsten von Russland
(Photographs, contemporary)

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Ritter's Park-Hotel - Terrasse. Restaurant
(Photographs, contemporary)

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Building History

Construction

1856

Conversion

1883, 1892, 1899, 1909-1910 (jeweils Vergrößerung um die anliegenden Häuser)

Demolition

1977 (Schließung), 1983-1984 (Teilabriss)

New Building

1991

Location

Visitors

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Subject Area

Catering

Funding

private

Keywords

Hotels  

References

DenkXweb

Recommended Citation

„Ritter’s Park Hotel“, in: Orte der Kur <https://www.lagis-hessen.de/en/odk/record/id/1073> (aufgerufen am 26.04.2024)