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Seehotel Leoni
Berg, Germany · Independent · Near Luxury
Leoni used to be called Assenbuch, until the Munich court singer Giuseppe Leoni inherited a lakeside villa here in the 1820s and a trip out from the city became a trip to Leoni. A turreted hotel replaced that house around 1900. The turrets came down in the 1970s. What you book now is the flat-roofed Seehotel of 1977: sixty-nine rooms on the eastern shore of Lake Starnberg, a baroque winter garden, La Cucina, and a lawn that meets the water.
- 69 rooms
- Neighborhood: Leoni
About Seehotel Leoni
- Giuseppe Leoni died in December 1834. The next April his widow Rosina put a notice in the Münchner Tagblatt that the inn would reopen on 15 April 1835, and asked guests to come back.
- Oskar Strauch's turreted Hotel Leoni and the hotel on Rottmannshöhe won a funicular concession in 1896. The hill hotel became a sanatorium in 1903, the railway never paid, and only the path through the woods is left.
- The spa is 415 square meters, with pool, sauna, and steam room toward the lake and the Alps. Schloss Berg, where Ludwig II spent his last night in 1886, is along this same eastern shore.
History
The village took its name from Giuseppe Leoni, a Munich court singer who inherited Staatsrat Franz von Krenner's lakeside villa in Assenbuch after Krenner's death in 1819 and made it an inn that artists and Munich society already knew. Around 1900 a large lakeside hotel with two towers replaced that house, run by Oskar Strauch and his wife Anna. A funicular concession to the hotel on Rottmannshöhe was granted in 1896 and failed after that hill house became a sanatorium in 1903. The turreted hotel was demolished in the mid-1970s. The present flat-roofed Seehotel Leoni opened in 1977 on the same ground and now counts sixty-nine rooms. The Fünfseenland history page places it with Dr. Lohbeck's private hotels.
The setting
Assenbucher Straße 44, 82335 Berg, in the hamlet of Leoni on the eastern shore of Lake Starnberg. The municipality is Berg. The door is not in the village center of Berg proper. Schloss Berg is along the shore. Munich is the day trip back, not the neighborhood.
Amenities
- Kostenfreies Parken (nach Verfügbarkeit)
- Kostenfreies WLAN
- Teambuilding-Programme (Indoor oder Outdoor rund um das Hotel)
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