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- Kamp-Lintfort/Germany
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The facade of this once very luxurious hotel has shaped this winter sports resort for well over 100 years. It was once the luxury hotel for the entire region and could offer every imaginable luxury (electric lighting, central heating, billiard room, restaurant). Even the king pays him a visit.
International winter sports enthusiasts, coaches and the entire referee staff later stayed at the sports hotel.
It seems like time stands still there. The former reception of the hotel is entered through an old, now rotten wooden door.
Here you can already guess what luxury the hotel offered the guests back then: parquet floors, chandeliers and a bar catch the eye in the hotel's entrance area.
But the decay is particularly visible in the rooms: the walls are partly covered with green mold, the curtains are rotting, the plaster is crumbling from the walls and exposing the bare walls. No more guests stay here.
The isolated office rooms are equipped with old typewriters. Files, invoices and other internal hotel documents - some with names and addresses - are often lying around on the floor. Obviously, data protection was not necessarily a priority.
The hotel also had an eventful history:
First a luxury hotel, then during WW2 a military hospital, a rest home for the Red Army, then a rest home for a company before it became a sports hotel after the fall of the Wall.
International winter sports enthusiasts, coaches and the entire referee staff later stayed at the sports hotel.
It seems like time stands still there. The former reception of the hotel is entered through an old, now rotten wooden door.
Here you can already guess what luxury the hotel offered the guests back then: parquet floors, chandeliers and a bar catch the eye in the hotel's entrance area.
But the decay is particularly visible in the rooms: the walls are partly covered with green mold, the curtains are rotting, the plaster is crumbling from the walls and exposing the bare walls. No more guests stay here.
The isolated office rooms are equipped with old typewriters. Files, invoices and other internal hotel documents - some with names and addresses - are often lying around on the floor. Obviously, data protection was not necessarily a priority.
The hotel also had an eventful history:
First a luxury hotel, then during WW2 a military hospital, a rest home for the Red Army, then a rest home for a company before it became a sports hotel after the fall of the Wall.
