Hotel Schwarzer Bock, hotel in Wiesbaden, Germany
Hotel Schwarzer Bock is a hotel on Kranzplatz in the center of Wiesbaden, close to the Kochbrunnen thermal spring, and belongs to the Radisson Blu chain. The building was shaped over time through several renovations and shows architecture from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with a layout of multiple connected wings.
The building is first recorded in 1486 and was rebuilt after a fire in 1578, when the Ingelheimer Room with its wooden wall panels was created. Over the following centuries it grew into a respected spa hotel, before being partly destroyed in World War II and occupied by American forces until 1957.
The name 'Schwarzer Bock' comes from a sign showing a black goat's head that once hung on the building, a common way to mark inns and bathhouses in earlier centuries. The name has stayed with the place ever since, connecting today's hotel to a long local tradition of welcoming visitors.
The hotel sits on Kranzplatz in the city center, so shops, cafes, and historic sites are easy to reach on foot. The property has its own thermal bath fed by a natural spring, which guests can use during their stay.
Roman stones, bricks, and remains of a hypocaust heating system were found in the hotel's cellars, left over from the Roman settlement of Aquae Mattiacorum. This shows that people were already bathing on this exact spot almost two thousand years ago, drawn by the same natural hot springs the hotel still uses today.
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