The Hotel Adlon stands beside the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, opened in 1907 by the hotelier Lorenz Adlon with the encouragement and personal interest of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and it quickly became one of Europe's most prestigious luxury hotels, hosting royalty, diplomats and celebrities through the early twentieth century. The original building was gutted by fire in 1945 in the chaotic final days of the Second World War, and its surviving rear wing continued limited use before being demolished in 1984 under East German rule. The hotel was rebuilt on the same site and reopened in 1997 as the Hotel Adlon Kempinski, its new facade echoing the neoclassical lines of the original in a deliberate act of historical reconstruction.
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Building Type Completed YearSource gives the year of opening; the completion year is taken to be the same and is not separately stated. Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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Source Hotel Adlon, Wikipedia
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Germany, located there.
Sources
1. Hotel Adlon, Wikipedia
Lead, paragraph 1, sentence 1, type of building
The Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin is a luxury hotel in Berlin, Germany.
Lead, paragraph 1, sentence 1, place named
The Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin is a luxury hotel in Berlin, Germany.
Lead, opening year statement
It opened in 1907 and was largely destroyed in 1945 in the closing days of World War II, though a small wing continued operating until 1984.
Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
The Hotel Adlon stands beside the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, opened in 1907 by the hotelier Lorenz Adlon with the encouragement and personal interest of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and it quickly became one of Europe's most prestigious luxury hotels, hosting royalty, diplomats and celebrities through the early twentieth century. The original building was gutted by fire in 1945 in the chaotic final days of the Second World War, and its surviving rear wing continued limited use before being demolished in 1984 under East German rule. The hotel was rebuilt on the same site and reopened in 1997 as the Hotel Adlon Kempinski, its new facade echoing the neoclassical lines of the original in a deliberate act of historical reconstruction.
In Style: New Classical Architecture, Wikipedia categories
Category:New Classical architecture
View the Source2. Wikidata: Hotel Adlon
- Wikidata Q698095, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q698095, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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