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Hotel Elephant Weimar, Autograph Collection
Weimar, Germany · Autograph Collection · Accessible Luxury
Thomas Mann put Weimar's market-square grand hotel into Lotte in Weimar, a house whose innkeeping starts in 1696. Goethe, Schiller, and Liszt passed through in the classical age; Mann himself signed the guestbook when the Elephant reopened on 16 May 1955. After a 2018 renovation it returned as a 99-room Autograph Collection house in Art Deco and Bauhaus character, still on the Markt.
- 99 rooms
- Opened 1696
- Neighborhood: Altstadt
- Rooms from 215 sq ft (20 m²)
About Hotel Elephant Weimar, Autograph Collection
- Christian Andreas Barittig, a ducal cupbearer, founded the Wirtshaus Elephant in 1696 at Markt 19.
- Mann asked for an Elephant room as a condition of collecting the Schiller Prize, and signed the guestbook at the 16 May 1955 reopening.
- Arcona and the Hirmer Group returned it in October 2018; restaurant AnnA replaced the old dining room.
History
The plot at Markt 19 in Weimar is documented from 1561. In 1696 ducal cupbearer Christian Andreas Barittig opened the Wirtshaus Elephant, later a merchants' inn and, from 1741, a post station. Goethe, Schiller, and Liszt used the house in Weimar's classical age. Thomas Mann set a night of Lotte in Weimar here, then asked for an Elephant room as a condition of collecting the Schiller Prize in 1955; the hotel reopened on 16 May 1955 and Mann signed the guestbook first. The Hirmer Group bought it in 2017. Arcona reopened the 99-room house in October 2018 as an Autograph Collection hotel, with restaurant AnnA in place of the old dining room.
The setting
3-minute walk to Goethe National Museum.
Amenities
- Fitness center
- Pet-friendly
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