Grand Hotel Heiligendamm

In the hotel stayed among others Rainer Maria Rilke, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Queen Luise of Prussia, Nicholas I of Russia, later Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

Von Kahlden had founded a stock corporation for the property, but then acquired the majority of the shares himself and thus became the sole owner.

As a result of the World War I and the following inflation, the GmbH ran into difficulties and the Louis Wolff KG bank, as the majority shareholder, became insolvent.

In 1925, Oskar Adolf von Rosenberg bought the Louis Wolff banking house and thus became the owner of the facility in Heiligendamm.

The daily business were still operated by Ostseebad Heiligendamm GmbH, so that the property of the Jewish-born Rosenberg was also visited by nazi promints, including Adolf Hitler himself and their guests, such as Benito Mussolini.

For ideological reasons, the bath was expropriated from its Jewish owner in 1932 and converted into the so-called Kraft durch Freude-facility.

In 1996, Fundus Group of real estate entrepreneur Anno August Jagdfeld acquired the facility and renovated the building and hotel.

The resulting extensive gated community corresponds to the ideas of the hotel manager Anno August Jagdfeld, who was bothered by the strollers and cyclists on the premises.