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Hotel Hohenhaus - from manor to first
class hotel
More than 400 years of moving history go along with
the country hotel Hohenhaus situated between Bad Hersfeld
and Eisenach. A map-like drawing in the public record
office in Marburg, drawn up around 1600, as well as
other historic sources show a timber-framed-like building
which has been run as a manor by the aristocratic family
von Buttlar in the middle ages. Until 1859 the manor
house remained in their possession. Then Ferdinand von
Schutzbar, named "Milchling", obtained the
manor. He was a highly merited man for Hesse, holding
the most significant honorary posts, for example as
"Obervorsteher" for the knightly monastery
Kaufungen.
After his death, his son, the royal chamberlain and cavalry
captain Rudolf von Schutzbar, took over Hohenhaus. It is due
to him, that the up to that date simple manor house has been
converted into a castle-like cottage held in the English country
house style. In charge of this project was the renowned architect
Bodo Erhardt from Bremen, who restored palaces and castles
in whole Germany. The park belonging to the castle has been
laid out in Victorian style by the Berlin landscape gardener
Martin Bertram around the turn of the century. There, around
500 meters away from the hotel, stands the ancient tribunal
linden tree. The tree is a natural monument and a historical
site at the same time. Below its leaf roof, squires used to
announce justice already in the Middles Ages.
Due to economical constraints the building as well
as the surrounding agriculture and forestry was acquired
in 1934 by a publisher family from Hamburg. 25 years
later the palace was converted and capacitated. The
actual conversion to a hotel, however, only started
in 1982 by the Frankfurt architect professor Jochen
Jourdan. He gently cored and redeveloped the horse and
coach stable built in 1890. The historic façade
has been preserved nearly completely and makes Hohenhaus
to what it is today - a first class historic hotel.
Today hotel Hohenhaus provides 26 rooms for its guests: six
are located in the farm house, 20 rooms in its original style
are in the renovated horse stable where also the swimming
pool with its panorama windows is situated. Since 1990 Hohenhaus
is a member of the international hotel cooperation Relais
& Châteaux. The Hohenhaus cuisine has been awarded
with the Michelin Star for the first time in 1995. Excellent
awards in all known restaurant guides make Hohenhaus a favourite
place for all gourmets.
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