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Platzl Hotel
Munich, Germany · Independent · Accessible Luxury
The Ayinger brewers, the Inselkammer family, have kept a hotel on the Platzl since 9 July 1956, on the little square beside the Hofbräuhaus. The house you check into now opened on 20 July 1988 at Sparkassenstraße 10, wrapped around the sixteenth-century vaults of the Pfistermühle, after Peter Inselkammer scrapped a flat-roofed block the city had already approved. Karl Valentin once played the Platzl stage in this quarter, and on the fifth floor the spa is modeled on Ludwig II's Moorish Kiosk.
- 167 rooms
- Opened 1956
- Neighborhood: Altstadt
About Platzl Hotel
- Carl and Hilde Groß held the Platzl stage from 1953 and ran the first hotel, about 130 rooms, until 1 April 1973, when they handed it to Ayinger and Peter Inselkammer became managing director.
- The old hotel closed on 16 November 1986, and demolition started the next day. The foundation stone was laid in April 1987, and Bavaria's finance minister Max Streibl, later the premier, opened the new house on 12 September 1988.
- The Hofpfisterei kept baking in the Pfistermühle's stone ovens after the war, until the bakery left in 1964. The ruined mill and the old Hofbrunnenhaus tower then sat as a parking lot until this hotel went up.
- The house has 167 rooms today, including a Bavarian Suite. Ayinger am Platzl pours beer from the family brewery in Aying, and Pfistermühle serves in the protected cellar.
History
Carl and Hilde Groß, who had leased the Platzl stage since 1953, opened the first Platzl Hotel on 9 July 1956, about 130 rooms in the old Platzl lanes where Karl Valentin had played. On 1 April 1973 they handed the hotel to the Ayinger brewery, and Peter Inselkammer, son of Franz and Maria Kreszenz Inselkammer, ran it. The present house is the 1988 building at Sparkassenstraße 10. It stands on the bombed Pfistermühle, whose sixteenth-century vaults were kept, after Peter Inselkammer rejected a 1971 plan for a flat-roofed block. The old hotel closed on 16 November 1986. Guests entered the new one on 20 July 1988, and Max Streibl opened it on 12 September. The family still owns it.
The setting
Sparkassenstraße 10, 80331, on the Platzl in Munich's Altstadt, the little square beside the Hofbräuhaus. Pfisterstraße and the protected mill cellar are part of the same block. Marienplatz is a short walk west.
Experiences
- Culinary and musical events — Unique culinary and musical events in Munich, listed in an event calendar.
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