Hotel Monopol

Wroclaw, Poland. Located on Helena Modrzejewska Street in central Wrocław, close to Świdnicka Street.

Hotel MonopolWroclaw, Poland

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Practical information

121 rooms.
Two restaurants, one Polish and one Mediterranean.
Spa and wellness club, plus conference and banquet rooms.
Located on Helena Modrzejewska Street in central Wrocław, close to Świdnicka Street.

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

1892
Banker Wallenberg Pachaly and architect Karl Grosser build a trade house and Art Nouveau/Neo-Baroque hotel in Breslau, on the former graveyard of St Dorothy’s Church, with 69 rooms.
Late 1800s
Considered luxurious by the standards of the day, it is nicknamed “the pearl of Lower Silesia”; Gerhart Hauptmann is among its famous guests.
1937 – 1938
A balcony is added above the main entrance for Hitler’s visit; he speaks from it the following year during the German Gymnastics and Sports Festival.
1945
The hotel building survives the war largely intact as Breslau becomes the Polish city of Wrocław; tenor Jan Kiepura later sings to crowds from its balcony.
1948
During the Exhibition of the Recovered Territories, the hotel hosts the World Congress of Intellectuals, attended by Pablo Picasso, Irène Joliot-Curie, Ilya Ehrenburg and Jorge Amado.
1961
The war-damaged department store wing is rebuilt and becomes the exclusive Café Monopol.
Post-war
The hotel appears in films including Andrzej Wajda’s Ashes and Diamonds and Wojciech Has’s The Doll; Marlene Dietrich stays here.
1984
The building is entered in Wrocław’s register of monuments.
2008
The façade is restored.
2012
During Euro 2012 the hotel hosts the Czech national football team.