Hotel Louis C. Jacob

Hamburg, Germany. Located on the Elbe hillside in Nienstedten, with sweeping views of ships sailing in and out of the port of Hamburg.

Hotel Louis C. JacobHamburg, Germany

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84 rooms and suites, with more than 500 original 19th- and 20th-century paintings and prints displayed throughout the house.
Jacobs Restaurant, the celebrated lime-tree terrace, the Kleines Jacob wine tavern and a bar.
Wellness area with sauna and gym, event rooms, a historic ice cellar and the MS Jacob hotel barge on the Elbe.
Located on the Elbe hillside in Nienstedten, with sweeping views of ships sailing in and out of the port of Hamburg.

11 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.

1791
French landscape gardener Daniel Louis Jacques, later known as Louis Jacob, arrives in Hamburg fleeing the Revolution, buys the Elbe-side house and marries its widowed owner.
1 July 1791
The house opens to guests as an inn with a wine tavern; Jacob is credited with laying out the gardens on the slope and the famous lime-tree terrace.
1802
Jacob receives an official licence from Copenhagen, as Nienstedten then lay under the Danish crown.
1902
Painter Max Liebermann stays for an extended period and paints views of the lime-tree terrace.
1922
The fifth generation, Louis Carl Matthias Jacob, inherits the house and entrusts its running to a management company; leaseholders follow from 1925.
1949
After serving as a transit hotel for officers and then a children’s home after the Second World War, the house resumes life as a hotel.
1956
The building and its garden are listed as a Hamburg heritage monument; guests of the period include Erich Kästner, Zarah Leander and Maria Callas.
1992
Hamburg entrepreneur Horst Rahe buys the declining house and turns it into a modern luxury hotel, uncovering hidden murals and an 1866 ice cellar during restoration.
July 2009
Robert Redford and Sibylle Szaggars hold their church wedding at the hotel.
2011 – 2020
Jacobs Restaurant holds two Michelin stars under chef Thomas Martin.
July 2025
Having left The Leading Hotels of the World in 2020, the hotel joins Marriott’s Autograph Collection.