Schlosshotel Kronberg

Kronberg im Taunus, Germany. Located in an English landscape park in Kronberg im Taunus, a short drive from Frankfurt am Main.

Schlosshotel KronbergKronberg im Taunus, Germany

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Practical information

Address: Schlosshotel Kronberg
Hainstraße 25
61476 Kronberg im Taunus
Germany
Telephone: +49 6173 70101
Official website: schlosshotel-kronberg.com
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62 rooms and suites furnished in English country-house style, from Castle Rooms to the Royal Suite.
Gourmet cuisine at Restaurant Victoria, in the former imperial residence.
An 18-hole golf course laid out in the castle park, with the first tee right beside the hotel.
Located in an English landscape park in Kronberg im Taunus, a short drive from Frankfurt am Main.

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

1889 – 1893
Schloss Friedrichshof is built to designs by court architect Ernst Ihne for the widowed Empress Victoria, named in memory of Emperor Frederick III.
1895
Queen Victoria visits her eldest daughter at Friedrichshof and plants a tree in the park.
October 1896
Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra pay a day visit to the castle.
August 1901
When the Empress dies, Princess Margaret of Prussia, Landgravine of Hesse, her youngest daughter, inherits the castle with all its contents, art and letters.
August 1906
King Edward VII and Kaiser Wilhelm II meet at Friedrichshof.
1945
After the war the American army uses the castle as an officers’ club; on 5 November the Hesse family jewels hidden in the cellar are discovered and stolen by US officers.
1951
The thieves are imprisoned; only about a tenth of the stolen treasure is ever returned to the family.
1954
The castle opens as Schlosshotel Kronberg under hotelier Richard Pertram.
1967
A roof fire destroys the upper floors; the building is restored by Philipp Holzmann, the firm that had built it.
2021
The interiors stand in for Sandringham House in the film Spencer.