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Kastens Hotel Luisenhof
Hanover, Germany. Located in the heart of Hanover on Luisenstraße, close to the opera house and the main railway station.
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- Opened
- 1856
- Rooms
- 149rooms and suites
- City
- HanoverGermany
- Setting
- CityEurope
Practical information
- Address
- Kastens Hotel Luisenhof
Luisenstraße 1-3
30159 Hannover
Germany - Telephone
- +49 511 30440
- Official website
- www.kastens-luisenhof.de
- Best available rate
- Check availability
At a glance
- 149 rooms and suites in 12 categories; Hanover’s first hotel to receive five stars (2008), five-star Superior since 2011.
- MARY’s Restaurant for fine dining, and a historic wine cellar available for private events.
- Rooftop fitness and sauna area on the sixth floor with views over the city, and 10 club rooms for meetings.
- Located in the heart of Hanover on Luisenstraße, close to the opera house and the main railway station.
History
10 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.
Innkeeper and wine connoisseur Heinrich Kasten rents a house on Theaterplatz, near the Royal Court Theatre, and opens Kastens Hotel; he buys it in 1859.
The German National Association led by Rudolf von Bennigsen meets at the hotel every Saturday; it becomes the hub of Hanover’s social life.
Writer Theodor Fontane stays at the hotel; Paul von Hindenburg had been a guest since 1866 and Enrico Caruso follows in 1911.
Heinrich’s son Friedrich Kasten renovates extensively and gives the whole facade a neo-Baroque look.
Berlin architect Alex Diepenbrock builds the Luisenhof annex on Luisenstraße, a five-storey reinforced-concrete building with a neo-Baroque facade.
Air raids on Hanover destroy both the main hotel and the Luisenhof; only parts of the facades survive.
The Luisenhof reopens for the first Hanover trade fair; the name “Kastens Hotel Luisenhof” is used from 1948.
Architects Ernst Zinsser and Georg Seewald add a fair hotel on the corner of Rathenaustraße, forming a single complex with the Luisenhof.
For its 150th anniversary the hotel opens a fitness and sauna area on the sixth floor.
Becomes the first hotel in Hanover awarded five stars by DEHOGA, upgraded to five-star Superior in 2011.
Sources: Wikipedia (DE), “Kastens Hotel Luisenhof” (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Official website. Text rewritten and translated by Grand Hotels of the World.
