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SEETELHOTEL Ahlbecker Hof
Ahlbeck, Germany · SEETELHOTEL · Accessible Luxury
Munkácsy opened the Ahlbecker Hof in 1890, eight years before Ahlbeck built its pier, and the sea terrace from the Fehrmann years is still the place to sit. Franz Josef I of Austria stayed in 1905, and after the war the house became the first FDGB holiday home, the East German union's own resort, until the Seelige-Steinhoff family bought it in 1994, dug out the foundations, and reopened it as a five-star hotel in the spring of 1996. About ninety rooms now face the Dünenstraße promenade, with Suan Thai and the Blauer Salon downstairs.
- 90 rooms
- Opened 1890
About SEETELHOTEL Ahlbecker Hof
- A Brazilian couple who could not be reached for two months arrived on the booked day in 1996 and slept in a made-up room on the building site, with a night watchman posted as a fire guard after the fire authority objected.
- In 1944 the general staffs of Army Group North quartered in the Ahlbecker Hof until nearly the end of the war.
- Queen Silvia of Sweden stayed in 2006, Prince Consort Henrik of Denmark and former president Horst Köhler in 2008, Theo Lingen in 1939, and Louise Ebert with former chancellor Gustav Bauer in 1925.
- Since spring 2001 the old Weinhaus Alfred Junker, restored as Villa Mamma Mia, has added twelve sea-facing suites, eleven with a whirlpool, plus six doubles, and the Residenz on the former Haus Seeblick plot followed in 2010.
- The underground spa of about a thousand square meters opened in 1997, the year the house joined Romantik Hotels, and guests book it now as Kinnaree.
History
Herr Munkácsy opened the Ahlbecker Hof in 1890 with, by the turn of the century, 105 rooms, a Wiener Café, and a terrace said to hold 400. Fehrmann ran it from 1912 to 1927, then a Berlin hotel company. Army Group North's staffs quartered here in 1944, and in 1949 Bernhard Göring turned it into the first FDGB holiday home. The Seelige-Steinhoff family bought the tired building in 1994, rebuilt from the foundations, and reopened it as a five-star hotel in spring 1996. It joined Romantik Hotels in 1997. Villa Mamma Mia, the old Weinhaus Alfred Junker, was added in 2001, and the Residenz on the former Haus Seeblick plot in 2010.
The setting
Dünenstraße 47, 17419 Seebad Ahlbeck, on Usedom's imperial-spa promenade. The Ahlbeck pier, raised about eight years after the hotel, is the walk out front. Heringsdorf and Bansin continue along the same shore.
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