Salles de Pologne

Salles de Pologne Leipzig

The Hôtel de Pologne is located in the heart of Leipzig's city center. Into the 19th century, three buildings stood on the spot, including the hotels »Zum Goldenen Adler« (»The Golden Eagle«) and »Zum Birnbaum« (»The Pear Tree«), where Martin Luther stayed in 1519. In 1819, C. A. Pausch purchased each of the buildings. To commemorate a visit by the king of Poland Stanisław I. Leszcyński, Pausch named his new property »Hôtel de Pologne«. In 1846, the buildings were destroyed in a fire, after which point construction was begun on what was then to be the largest hotel in Leipzig, with 130 rooms on five floors, a courtyard, and an impressive outdoor marble staircase. In 1892 and 1893, the famous Leipzig architect Arwed Roßbach was commissioned to carve an elaborate Florentine Renaissance style relief for the façade. The hotel was used both as a place in which to spent the night and as a location for parties and balls, which were held in the large (250 square meters), festive Baroque Revival ballroom. This room was completed in 1893 following a design by Ludwig Heim, and had space for 1,500 guests. During WWI, the building was converted to a hospital, and in 1917 all hotel business was abandoned. Only the ballroom remained open to the public, where parties and culinary events were still hosted. In the years that followed, under the Weimar Republic, the building was used as a convention center, and from the early 1950s until after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it housed the offices of the Leipzig department of conventions and fairs, which converted the ballroom into a blue-tiled industrial kitchen. In 2008, the Leipzig development company Stadtbau A.G. carried out an exhaustive historic renovation and restoration of the building in order to recreate the its interior and exterior as they had been in 1893. Since 2010, the Grand Ballroom, the Green Room, and the Lodge Hall, as well as two foyers and other smaller rooms have been available for use as event space.

Address

Hainstraße 16/18

04109 Leipzig

accessible to wheelchair users

Public transport

Tram lines 1, 3, 4, 7, 12, 13, 15 (Goerdelerring stop)

Traffic information via the Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe: https://www.l.de/en/mobility/trip-planner/