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Unsölds Factory Hotel
Munich, Germany · Independent · Near Luxury
Munich called this backyard rink the Schachterleis: fifteen by thirty-eight meters of ice under a glass roof, boxed in by the houses of Galeriestraße. Johann Felix Unsöld opened it on 8 February 1893, the first covered artificial rink in Germany, so the ice works he started on the Stadtmühlbach in 1891 would earn their keep in winter. The rink closed in 1960, and on 2 October 2020 his great-granddaughters Sonja Unsöld and Susanna Lechner reopened the 1970 hotel on that same plot, now Unsöldstraße 10, as Unsöld's Factory Hotel.
- 62 rooms
- Opened 1970
- Neighborhood: Lehel
- Rooms from 172 sq ft (16 m²)
- Interiors: Hanna Raissle
About Unsölds Factory Hotel
- From 25 to 27 January 1913 the fourth European ice hockey championship was played on this ice. Belgium won. The other teams were Bohemia, Austria, and Germany.
- Bombs took the glass roof in October 1943. The rink came back as an open sheet at the end of 1949, closed in 1960, and was pulled down in 1961.
- The family opened the hotel Ariston here in 1970, built for the 1972 Olympics, the same year Munich renamed this stretch of Galeriestraße as Unsöldstraße. The last lease ended in April 2019.
- Claudia von Funcke hung about 4,000 cut glass lenses in the lobby as a fluid wall, and the bar front is meant to read as Felix Unsöld's ice bars. The Eisbach wave, 250 meters off, is fed by the Stadtmühlbach under the courtyard.
- Hanna Raissle directed the interiors, and Claudia Rinneberg at the Ammersee turned the old South Tyrolean alder into the desks. The von Oven family runs the 62 rooms. Only the fifth floor is air-conditioned.
History
Johann Felix Unsöld bought this Lehel plot, once a mill, in 1886 and in 1891 started an ice works on the Stadtmühlbach, making rod ice for food and beer. On 8 February 1893 he opened Germany's first covered artificial rink beside it, a 15-by-38-meter sheet under a glass roof that Munich called the Schachterleis. The 1913 European ice hockey championship was played there. Bombs destroyed the roof in October 1943. An open rink returned in 1949, closed in 1960, and came down in 1961. In 1970 the family opened the hotel Ariston on the cleared site, aimed at the 1972 Olympics, and the street took Unsöld's name. After the last lease ended in April 2019, great-granddaughters Sonja Unsöld and Susanna Lechner reopened it on 2 October 2020 as Unsöld's Factory Hotel. The von Oven family operates it.
The setting
Unsöldstraße 10, 80538, in Lehel, between the English Garden and Maximilianstraße. The Stadtmühlbach runs under the courtyard and feeds the Eisbach wave about 250 meters away, past Prinzregentenstraße. The street was Galeriestraße until the 1970 renaming.
Restaurants and bars
- Eisbach Bar — Bar
Amenities
- Underground car park
- Lifestyle hotel with a unique character
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