Kurhaus Ahrenshoop, Historical hotel in Ahrenshoop, Germany

Kurhaus Ahrenshoop is a multi-part concrete hotel on a rise above the Baltic in Ahrenshoop. Its lower left wing has a long horizontal band of dark-framed windows above a row of smaller rectangular windows, with rough, weathered wall surface behind. To the right, a taller block carries a large tan facade painted with the word "KURHAUS"; behind it, a section of exposed brick and peeling plaster has rows of small windows. The 2010 replacement building stands where the 1970 Kurhaus was demolished in 2008.

The Rostock entrepreneur Carl Molchin acquired land in Ahrenshoop in 1891 and built the Kurhaus Bogislaw by 1893, naming it after Duke Bogislaw IV of Pomerania. A 1919 ownership change sparked a naming dispute, and in 1920 the hotel became simply Kurhaus. Nationalized in 1953, the old building was demolished in 1968; its 1970 replacement was itself torn down in 2008, and a new hotel opened in 2010.

The hotel's name changed from Kurhaus Bogislaw to Kurhaus in 1920 after a naming dispute between Fräulein von Walsleben and the new owners Falkenberg and Oetker. A new typography was designed for the hotel logo that year and is still used in modified form. The glassed dining hall of the 1970 building was nicknamed "Bonzenaquarium".

The building stands on the Schifferberg rise above Ahrenshoop, not directly on the beach. The 2010 replacement reopened as a Grand Hotel & Spa; the hotel name has changed several times since, so check the current name before booking. The concrete facade carries the painted word "KURHAUS" on its tan block.

The 1970 replacement building, opened on 18 July, had a glazed dining hall facing the Baltic; its nickname was "Bonzenaquarium". The old house was demolished in 1968, and this new one was run by the GDR travel office. In February 2008, before demolition, Berlin artist Philipp Geist projected his video work time lines directly onto the ruin's window front from inside.