Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin
The Adlon celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2007. During the jubilee year lots of events like exhibitions with old menu cards, with historical uniforms and porcelain took place. There was a big birthday party, every first Thursday of a month anniversary dinner was served, a culinary time travel 1907-2007. And there was a birthday party with the people of Berlin, born in 1907. With the Adlon, the capital got its tradition-rich Grandhotel at the Pariser Platz back. Service and furnishings offer the best of our time. Apart from the magnificent ballroom, the restaurants, bars and banquet halls of the Adlon are available to you as a glamorous enrichment for your stay in Berlin Mitte. With the accomplished styling of meetings and events the conference accommodations together with the perfectly equipped Business-Centre sets new standards.
The history of the Hotel Adlon began on the 24th October 1907. With the support by the Emperor Wilhelm II, the hotel became within three years the prettiest and most luxurious hotel of the world. Under the management of its founder Lorenz Adlon, the house developed into a place to see and to be seen. Europe's kings, the Czar, the Maharaja of Patiala, Edison, Ford, Rockefeller, Rathenau, Stresemann and Briand were guests here as well as Einstein, Sauerbruch, Strauß or Karajan. Charlie Chaplin lost his trouser buttons to the Berlin people on his way back to the hotel and Marlene Dietrich was here discovered. 'In the hotel's great hall', wrote the Berlin Morgenpost 1929, 'one heard languages of all cultural nations buzzing through the air'.
A fire, in the night from the 2nd to 3rd of May destroyed the splendour building except for the side wings and sealed the fate of today's legendary hotel. In 1964 the building was renovated, the facade received new sparkle. A decision in the 70s drew a line under the Hotel Adlon. The luxury hotel of the golden 1920s, the HO-Hotel of the GDR's early days was turned into a trainee's hostel. In 1984 vanished the last part of the Hotel Adlon, to make way for a planned new residential complex. On the 23rd of August 1997, opened the then-Federal President Prof. Dr. Roman Herzog, at the same place where the legendary hotel used to stand, the new Hotel Adlon.
Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin
Unter den Linden 77
10117 Berlin - Mitte
Homepage: www.hotel-adlon.de
Transport Links:
S-Bahn: S1, S2, S25 (station Unter den Linden)
Bus: 100