Brenner's Park Hotel
Baden-Baden, Germany
Steigenberger Icon Grandhotel & Spa Petersberg
Königswinter, Germany. Located on the summit of the Petersberg in the Siebengebirge, overlooking the Rhine valley, Königswinter and Bonn.
- Opened
- 1892
- Rooms
- 111rooms and suites
- City
- KönigswinterGermany
- Setting
- Mountains & natureEurope
Practical information
- Address
- Steigenberger Icon Grandhotel & Spa Petersberg
Petersberg
53639 Königswinter
Germany - Telephone
- +49 2223 740
- Official website
- www.petersberg.steigenberger.com
- Best available rate
- Check availability
At a glance
- 102 rooms and 9 suites in the former federal guesthouse of Germany.
- Restaurants include Bill’s Restaurant & Grill with its Rhine terrace, Charles Bistro & Café and Ferdinand Wine & Dine, plus a summer beer garden.
- Spa with pool, sauna and fitness area; 15 conference rooms, including a ballroom for up to 450 guests with views of the Rhine.
- Located on the summit of the Petersberg in the Siebengebirge, overlooking the Rhine valley, Königswinter and Bonn.
History
10 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.
Merchant Joseph Ludwig Mertens buys the hilltop; his wife Sibylle Mertens-Schaafhausen, nicknamed the “Rheingräfin”, builds a summer residence there.
The Nelles brothers from Cologne open a hotel on the mountain, served by the Petersbergbahn rack railway.
Ferdinand Mülhens, owner of the 4711 eau de Cologne house, buys the estate and has it converted into a spa hotel.
During the Sudeten crisis, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain becomes the first official foreign dignitary to visit the Petersberg.
Seat of the Allied High Commission: the Occupation Statute is issued here and Chancellor Adenauer signs the Petersberg Agreement with the Western Allies.
The federal government leases the hotel to receive foreign state guests; Queen Elizabeth II stays in 1965. After the lease ends the hotel struggles and closes.
The Federal Republic buys the property and launches a lengthy reconstruction.
Reopens as the federal guesthouse, the “German Camp David”; Mikhail Gorbachev and Nelson Mandela visit that year.
US President Bill Clinton visits; the following year Michael Schumacher marries Corinna on the Petersberg.
Hosts the Bonn conference on Afghanistan, followed by a second conference in 2002.
Sources: Wikipedia (EN), “Hotel Petersberg” (CC BY-SA 4.0) · GCB German Convention Bureau – Steigenberger Grandhotel & Spa Petersberg · Schlemmer Atlas – Steigenberger Icon Grandhotel & Spa Petersberg. Text rewritten and translated by Grand Hotels of the World.
