Brenner's Park Hotel
Baden-Baden, Germany
Althoff Grandhotel Schloss Bensberg
Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. Overlooking the Cologne bay, its central axis aligned exactly on Cologne Cathedral, 14 km away.
Photo
« Aerial image of the Bensberg Castle (view from the southeast).jpg »
Author: Carsten Steger
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
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- Opened
- 2000
- Rooms
- 120rooms and suites
- City
- Bergisch GladbachGermany
- Setting
- CityEurope
Practical information
- Address
- Althoff Grandhotel Schloss Bensberg
Kadettenstraße
51429 Bergisch Gladbach
Germany - Telephone
- +49 2204 420
- Official website
- www.schlossbensberg.com
- Best available rate
- Check availability
At a glance
- 84 rooms and 36 suites in a Baroque hunting palace.
- Restaurant Vendôme, led by three-star chef Joachim Wissler, and the Trattoria Enoteca.
- Eight meeting rooms including a Grand Ballroom, the Zanetti hall with its ceiling fresco, a library of 5,000 antiquarian books and the 1900 Kadettenbad pool hall.
- Overlooking the Cologne bay, its central axis aligned exactly on Cologne Cathedral, 14 km away.
History
9 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.
Elector Johann Wilhelm II commissions Count Matteo d'Alberti to build a Baroque hunting lodge for his second wife, inspired by Versailles.
Johann Wilhelm dies before completion; his successors rarely visit.
Used as a field hospital for Austrian soldiers; a typhus epidemic kills more than 3,000, buried in the Milchborntal.
The palace houses a Prussian cadet school; the Kadettenbad swimming hall is built in the park in 1897–1900.
Seat of a Nazi elite school (Napola); in 1944 a Buchenwald subcamp also operates here.
Occupied by Allied troops, including the 2nd Battalion Welsh Guards, then Belgian forces.
Home of the Belgian school Koninklijk Atheneum Bensberg.
Listed as a protected monument of Bergisch Gladbach.
Sold by the state to an insurer and converted for €75 million into a grand hotel run by Althoff Hotels.
Sources: Wikipedia (DE), „Schloss Bensberg“ (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Wikipedia (EN), “Bensberg Castle” (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Official website · Successful Meetings – Grandhotel Schloss Bensberg. Text rewritten and translated by Grand Hotels of the World.
