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| ⚫ | '''Grand Hôtel Les Trois Rois''' (''Hotel of the Three Kings'') in [[Basel]], until 1986 usually identified by its German-language name, '''Hotel Drei Könige''', is often cited as one of [[Switzerland]]'s oldest hotels.<ref name=3kingslautaltbasel>{{cite web|url=http://www.altbasel.ch/haushof/les_trois_rois.html|title=Vom Gasthof Drei Könige zum Hotel Les Trois Rois .... Tram- / Bushaltestelle Schifflände|publisher=Roger Jean Rebmann iA "altbasel.ch"|access-date=4 November 2015}}</ref> It is located on the left bank of the [[Rhine]], a few paces downstream of the city's [[:de:Mittlere Brücke|first bridge]] across the river.<ref name="wo?lautNZZ">{{cite web|url=http://www.nzz.ch/articleD1HMC-1.163638|title=Grossbaustelle Hotel Drei Könige: Seit gut einem Jahr wird das Hotel Drei Könige in Basel, eines der berühmtesten Häuser der Schweiz, saniert und erweitert. Unter Wahrung der alten Bausubstanz soll direkt am Rheinufer ein Luxushotel mit modernstem Komfort entstehen. |date=15 August 2005|work=[[Neue Zürcher Zeitung]]|access-date=4 November 2015}}</ref> |
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==Early history== |
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| ⚫ | Before the railways were built, the Rhine was the most important trade artery in western Europe, and Basel was the principal terminal point at its southern end. Beside the transshipment jetties where merchandise was off-loaded from the boats on the northeast bank of the river, there was already a [[guest house]], identified in 1255 as "domus zem blumen in vico crucis" "''(House of Flowers at the cross street)''", which was probably a decade or so after the ferry crossings of the river were complemented at this point by a road bridge.<ref name=3kingslautaltbasel/> However, the guest house and adjacent buildings had to be demolished after the [[1356 Basel earthquake|1356 earthquake]].<ref name=3kingslautaltbasel/> |
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| ⚫ | The first surviving record of a hotel on this site with its modern name dates from 1681, where the "Drei Könige" Inn was identified as a place where itinerant merchants lodged.<ref name=3Koenifelaut3Koenige>{{cite web|url=http://www.lestroisrois.com/fileadmin/les_trois_rois/files/pdf/Geschichte_LTR_D_web.pdf|title=Grosses Hotel – Grosse Geschichte .... Erste erwähnung|publisher=Grand Hotel les trois rois|access-date=4 November 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304190212/http://www.lestroisrois.com/fileadmin/les_trois_rois/files/pdf/Geschichte_LTR_D_web.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The name "Drei Könige" means "Three kings" and is a popular name for city hotels in Switzerland and southern Germany. It is thought to be a reference to the [[Biblical Magi|Magi]] (popularly, "Three Kings") who visited [[Nativity of Jesus|Jesus]] shortly after His birth: the Magi, like the merchants who stayed overnight in medieval hotels, were notable for the precious merchandise they carried with them.<ref name=3Koenifelaut3Koenige/> |
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| ⚫ | In 1841–42 the entire site was acquired by Johann Jakob Senn, hitherto a successful master tailor who foresaw possibilities for a massive expansion in leisure travel that would follow from the revolutions in transportation brought about by the river steamer and the coming of the railways.<ref name=3kingslautaltbasel/> Senn demolished the hotel and had it rebuilt in a much more luxurious style, employing the fashionable Basel architect {{Interlanguage link multi|Amadeus Merian|de}} to design what would later be seen as an early example of [[Belle Époque]] architecture.<ref name=3kingslautaltbasel/> The rebuilt hotel reopened on 16 February 1844. From then on it would present itself as a "Grand Hotel", with a guest list that included many leading figures from the worlds of politics and the arts.<ref name=3Koenifelaut3Koenige/> |
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==History== |
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==Later history== |
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| ⚫ | The first surviving record of a hotel on this site with its modern name dates from 1681, where the "Drei Könige" Inn was identified as a place where itinerant merchants |
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| ⚫ | In 1915 the southern block of the hotel building was sold to the [[Basler Kantonalbank]] and renovated appropriately.<ref name=3Koenifelaut3Koenige/> Twenty-three years later, in 1938, the bankers moved out and this building became the City Tourist Information Office.<ref name=3Koenifelaut3Koenige/> In 2004 the hotel, together with the block that had been separated off and sold to the bank in 1915, was acquired by entrepreneur and [[Straumann|dental implants magnate]] Thomas Straumann.<ref name=3Koenifelaut3Koenige/> The hotel was closed down for two years while it was comprehensively rebuilt, incorporating the southern block and with a view to recapturing as much as possible the reality of the 1844 original, but only insofar as this was possible without abandoning the more modern luxury features considered appropriate for the 21st century.<ref name=NZZ190320063Koe/> The hotel reopened on 20 March 2006.<ref name=NZZ190320063Koe>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzz.ch/articleDO851-1.19582|date=19 March 2006|title="Les Trois Rois" strahlen neu Klasse und Klassizismus – das Grand-Hotel in Basel bietet Luxus in seiner schönsten Form |work=[[Neue Zürcher Zeitung]]|access-date=4 November 2015}}</ref> In 2012 Straumann announced that he was looking for a buyer for the hotel.<ref name=InterviewTS>{{cite web|url=http://www.badische-zeitung.de/basel/bz-interview-gesucht-kaeufer-mit-leidenschaft--66611917.html|title=BZ-INTERVIEW: Gesucht: Käufer mit Leidenschaft|author1=Dominik Bloedner|author2=Thomas Stramann (interviewee)|newspaper=[[Badische Zeitung]] |location=Freiburg|date=8 December 2012|access-date=4 November 2015}}</ref> Disappointingly,<ref name=3KoenlautBAZ29102013>{{cite web|url=http://bazonline.ch/basel/stadt/Das-Trois-Rois-sollte-in-Basler-Haenden-bleiben/story/27491184|title="Das Trois Rois sollte in Basler Händen bleiben"....Der ehemalige Direktor Ruedi Schiesser begleitet das Grandhotel seit 20 – zum Teil bewegten – Jahren. Dass kein Basler Investor um das zum Verkauf stehende Haus buhlt, enttäuscht ihn.|date=19 October 2013|author=Raphael Suter|work=[[Basler Zeitung]]|access-date=4 November 2015}}</ref> a suitable buyer had still not been found two years later, and in December 2014 it was announced that the hotel was no longer for sale.<ref name=NZZ101220043Koe>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzz.ch/newsticker/milliardaer-straumann-verkauft-basler-luxushotel-les-trois-rois-doch-nicht-1.18441971|title=Milliardär Straumann verkauft Luxushotel "Les Trois Rois" doch nicht|date=10 December 2014|work=[[Neue Zürcher Zeitung]]|access-date=4 November 2015}}</ref> |
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==Celebrity clientele== |
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Political leaders who have stayed at the hotel include [[Willy Brandt]], [[Helmut Schmidt]], [[Valéry Giscard d'Estaing]], and the [[Dalai Lama]].<ref name=3Koenifelaut3Koenige/> Heads of state claimed as guests include King [[Farouk of Egypt]] and [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]].<ref name=3Koenifelaut3Koenige/> In 1798 [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] had a business lunch here with Basel officials "to discuss French-Swiss relations".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lhw.com/hotel/Grand-Hotel-Les-Trois-Rois-Basel-Switzerland|title=Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois|publisher=[[The Leading Hotels of the World]]|year=2015|access-date=22 November 2015}}</ref> A more recent guest was Britain's [[Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein|General Montgomery]].<ref name=3Koenifelaut3Koenige/> Guests from the worlds of the arts and literature have included [[Voltaire]], [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], [[Charles Dickens]], [[Herbert von Karajan]], [[Duke Ellington]], and [[Marc Chagall]].<ref name=3Koenifelaut3Koenige/> [[Theodor Herzl]] stayed at the hotel in August 1897 while attending the [[First Zionist Congress]].<ref>[http://www.jpost.com/Travel/Travel-News/It-is-no-dream It is no dream], [[Jerusalem Post]]</ref> The American scientist and philosopher [[Charles S. Peirce]] stayed there in January 1870. |
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The composer and conductor [[Pierre Boulez]] was awakened by police at six in the morning in his room at the Hotel Les Trois Rois late in 2001; the officers confiscated his passport and disappeared.<ref name=Spiegel502001/> In 1967, Boulez had given an interview to ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' in which he said that "the opera houses should be blown up".<ref name=Spiegel502001/> The law enforcement officials picked up on it during a routine check of hotel guest registrations.<ref name=Spiegel502001/> The passport was returned after a few hours.<ref name=Spiegel502001>{{cite web|url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-20960972.html|title=Pierre Boulez|volume=50/2001|date=10 December 2001|work=[[Der Spiegel]] (online)| access-date=4 November 2015}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | In 1915 the southern block of the hotel building was sold to the [[Basler Kantonalbank]] and |
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Dabei fand keine Entkernung statt, vielmehr hat man das Gebäude ähnlich wie eine Zwiebel geschält und Schicht für Schicht abgetragen. Dabei stiess man unter anderem auf Malereien im Eingangsbereich und die Originaltapeten, beides wurde restauriert. Am 20. März 2006 wurde das Hotel wiedereröffnet und firmiert seither unter dem Namen Les Trois Rois. Es ist ein Fünf-Sterne-Hotel sowie eines der Leading Hotels of the World. |
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Latest revision as of 19:18, 1 April 2023
| Grand Hôtel Les Trois Rois Hotel Drei Könige/Hotel of the Three Kings | |
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.JPG) Hôtel Les Trois Rois in 2012 | |
| General information | |
| Location | Basel, BS, Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 47°33′37.6″N 7°35′15.6″E / 47.560444°N 7.587667°E |
| Opening | 1681 (with present name) |
| Owner | Thomas Straumann |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Amadeus Merian (1844 rebuild) Christian Lang (2006 renovations) |
| Website | |
| lestroisrois | |
Grand Hôtel Les Trois Rois (Hotel of the Three Kings) in Basel, until 1986 usually identified by its German-language name, Hotel Drei Könige, is often cited as one of Switzerland's oldest hotels.[1] It is located on the left bank of the Rhine, a few paces downstream of the city's first bridge across the river.[2]
Early history
[edit]Before the railways were built, the Rhine was the most important trade artery in western Europe, and Basel was the principal terminal point at its southern end. Beside the transshipment jetties where merchandise was off-loaded from the boats on the northeast bank of the river, there was already a guest house, identified in 1255 as "domus zem blumen in vico crucis" "(House of Flowers at the cross street)", which was probably a decade or so after the ferry crossings of the river were complemented at this point by a road bridge.[1] However, the guest house and adjacent buildings had to be demolished after the 1356 earthquake.[1]
The first surviving record of a hotel on this site with its modern name dates from 1681, where the "Drei Könige" Inn was identified as a place where itinerant merchants lodged.[3] The name "Drei Könige" means "Three kings" and is a popular name for city hotels in Switzerland and southern Germany. It is thought to be a reference to the Magi (popularly, "Three Kings") who visited Jesus shortly after His birth: the Magi, like the merchants who stayed overnight in medieval hotels, were notable for the precious merchandise they carried with them.[3]
In 1841–42 the entire site was acquired by Johann Jakob Senn, hitherto a successful master tailor who foresaw possibilities for a massive expansion in leisure travel that would follow from the revolutions in transportation brought about by the river steamer and the coming of the railways.[1] Senn demolished the hotel and had it rebuilt in a much more luxurious style, employing the fashionable Basel architect Amadeus Merian to design what would later be seen as an early example of Belle Époque architecture.[1] The rebuilt hotel reopened on 16 February 1844. From then on it would present itself as a "Grand Hotel", with a guest list that included many leading figures from the worlds of politics and the arts.[3]
Later history
[edit]In 1915 the southern block of the hotel building was sold to the Basler Kantonalbank and renovated appropriately.[3] Twenty-three years later, in 1938, the bankers moved out and this building became the City Tourist Information Office.[3] In 2004 the hotel, together with the block that had been separated off and sold to the bank in 1915, was acquired by entrepreneur and dental implants magnate Thomas Straumann.[3] The hotel was closed down for two years while it was comprehensively rebuilt, incorporating the southern block and with a view to recapturing as much as possible the reality of the 1844 original, but only insofar as this was possible without abandoning the more modern luxury features considered appropriate for the 21st century.[4] The hotel reopened on 20 March 2006.[4] In 2012 Straumann announced that he was looking for a buyer for the hotel.[5] Disappointingly,[6] a suitable buyer had still not been found two years later, and in December 2014 it was announced that the hotel was no longer for sale.[7]
Celebrity clientele
[edit]Political leaders who have stayed at the hotel include Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and the Dalai Lama.[3] Heads of state claimed as guests include King Farouk of Egypt and Queen Elizabeth II.[3] In 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte had a business lunch here with Basel officials "to discuss French-Swiss relations".[8] A more recent guest was Britain's General Montgomery.[3] Guests from the worlds of the arts and literature have included Voltaire, Jean-Paul Sartre, Charles Dickens, Herbert von Karajan, Duke Ellington, and Marc Chagall.[3] Theodor Herzl stayed at the hotel in August 1897 while attending the First Zionist Congress.[9] The American scientist and philosopher Charles S. Peirce stayed there in January 1870.
The composer and conductor Pierre Boulez was awakened by police at six in the morning in his room at the Hotel Les Trois Rois late in 2001; the officers confiscated his passport and disappeared.[10] In 1967, Boulez had given an interview to Der Spiegel in which he said that "the opera houses should be blown up".[10] The law enforcement officials picked up on it during a routine check of hotel guest registrations.[10] The passport was returned after a few hours.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Vom Gasthof Drei Könige zum Hotel Les Trois Rois .... Tram- / Bushaltestelle Schifflände". Roger Jean Rebmann iA "altbasel.ch". Retrieved 4 November 2015.
- ^ "Grossbaustelle Hotel Drei Könige: Seit gut einem Jahr wird das Hotel Drei Könige in Basel, eines der berühmtesten Häuser der Schweiz, saniert und erweitert. Unter Wahrung der alten Bausubstanz soll direkt am Rheinufer ein Luxushotel mit modernstem Komfort entstehen". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 15 August 2005. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Grosses Hotel – Grosse Geschichte .... Erste erwähnung" (PDF). Grand Hotel les trois rois. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
- ^ a b ""Les Trois Rois" strahlen neu Klasse und Klassizismus – das Grand-Hotel in Basel bietet Luxus in seiner schönsten Form". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 19 March 2006. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
- ^ Dominik Bloedner; Thomas Stramann (interviewee) (8 December 2012). "BZ-INTERVIEW: Gesucht: Käufer mit Leidenschaft". Badische Zeitung. Freiburg. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
- ^ Raphael Suter (19 October 2013). ""Das Trois Rois sollte in Basler Händen bleiben"....Der ehemalige Direktor Ruedi Schiesser begleitet das Grandhotel seit 20 – zum Teil bewegten – Jahren. Dass kein Basler Investor um das zum Verkauf stehende Haus buhlt, enttäuscht ihn". Basler Zeitung. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
- ^ "Milliardär Straumann verkauft Luxushotel "Les Trois Rois" doch nicht". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 10 December 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
- ^ "Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois". The Leading Hotels of the World. 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ^ It is no dream, Jerusalem Post
- ^ a b c d "Pierre Boulez". Der Spiegel (online). 10 December 2001. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
External links
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Media related to Hotel Les Trois Rois (Basel) at Wikimedia Commons
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