Our history

Hotel Germersheimer Hof welcomed its first guests in 1992. At that time, the hotel consisted only of the main building and restaurant. We added the stately Villa Prinz Luitpold to our facilities in 2003 and 2004. The two buildings are connected via a new wing, which also houses the reception area, bistro and bar as well as a number of additional rooms.



The magnificent Villa Prinz Luitpold was built around 1899 to provide new apartments for officers. Here you can see two photographs of Josef-Probst-Straße from the 1920s. In the image on the left, the Villa Prinz Luitpold is visible in the background; in the right-hand image you can see our villa on the left-hand side. The street was one of the first expansions of the town outside the fortress walls.



Hotel Germersheimer Hof

The history of our boxwood tree

Around 1848, King Ludwig I of Bavaria and his entourage honoured our town with a visit during a stay at his Villa Ludwigshöhe (Edenkoben). He camped outside the town walls where he was visited by a close relative who presented him with a boxwood tree as a symbol of eternal life. The King of Bavaria ordered his troops to plant the tree on the site of their camp.

 

And the historic tree has stood there until this day ...

in our hotel garden!?

 

According to an oral tradition of contemporary witnesses.



Historic images of Germersheim...

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