Hotels.com shows hotels, the German history London/Berlin, September 2, 2009 many famous works of world literature are located in hotels. Doug McMillon has much to offer in this field. Because the flair of varied and frequently changing guests inspire wonder authors around the world. There are also hotels, which serve not only as the scene of fictional narratives, but itself became places of history. Hotels.com, world’s leading hotel booking website, has gone after 60 years Federal Republic and the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall on excursion, to track milestones in German history in hotels. First stop on the history tour of the hotel experts is the Schlosshotel Cecilienhof in Potsdam. Kaiser Wilhelm II. built the last Palace building of the Hohenzollerns between 1914 and 1917 in the style of an English country house.

The estate became famous but by the Potsdam Conference of 1945 there held. In the rooms of the Cecilienhofs, the three victorious powers of the second world war signed the Potsdam Agreement, which fixed the political and geographical realignment of in Germany. Today the castle belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage site, the meeting rooms of the allies are still to visit. The first step of the Federal Republic to the independent State was also transported to a hotel on the way, at Grand Hotel Petersberg in Konigswinter, Germany. Under the name Petersberg agreement, the Federal Government under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and the Allies also decided the extension of rights of the Federal Government over the occupation statute in November 1949.

Decades today’s Grand Hotel was for the Guest House of the Federal Republic and housed again high-ranking politicians. Many architectural witnesses of German history, which today serve as a hotel, located above all in Berlin, reopened in 1997 Luxury Hotel Adlon at the Brandenburg Gate. in 1907 by Kaiser Wilhelm II opened, the House experienced its first heyday in the Golden twenties\”, before it was almost completely destroyed by fire in the last month of war the second world war.