Europa-Haus, Cultural heritage monument in Flensburg, Germany.
Europa-Haus is a commercial building at Rathausstraße 1–3, beside Flensburg's central bus station. The former Hotel Europa consists of two gabled houses joined around 1860 and a Neo-Renaissance corner extension built in 1881 for hotelier Christian Schrader. A marble staircase from 1881 and an expressionist breakfast room from the 1920s survive inside.
Two gabled houses built around 1860 on Rathausstraße were joined in 1865 as the Bahnhofshotel, next to the city's 1855 railway station. In 1881 hotelier Christian Schrader added a Neo-Renaissance corner wing at Süderhofenden. The Prien family bought the hotel in 1924 and ran it until its closure on 31 January 1992; it was converted into a commercial building in 2002/2003.
The name Europa-Haus comes from the Hotel Europa, as the former Bahnhofshotel was renamed in 1961. Guests included Willy Brandt, Helmut Kohl and Udo Jürgens; Adolf Hitler stayed in room 24 during his 1932 election visit. The former breakfast room keeps its expressionist decoration from the 1920s.
The Europa-Haus stands at Rathausstraße 1–3 directly by Flensburg's central bus station, on the corner with Süderhofenden. The former hotel is now a commercial building; the ground-floor unit facing the bus station housed the tourist information from 2003 to 2012 and now holds a snack bar. A car park built in 2015 rises beside and behind the building.
The building's name comes from the Hotel Europa, as the former Bahnhofshotel was called from 1961. The Prien family ran the hotel until it closed on 31 January 1992; the purchase price agreed in 1924 in Danish kroner was only settled in 1937 after the 1929 currency crisis.
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