Kurhaus Stromberg, Historical health resort in Stromberg, Germany.
Kurhaus Stromberg is a five-story building with a mansard hipped roof set within a park in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatinate. The structure reflects the grand architectural style of early 1920s spa facilities, designed with spacious guest accommodations and recreational areas.
The foundation stone was laid in April 1914, but World War I delayed construction significantly. It finally opened in 1921 with 60 rooms as a modern health resort facility.
The Kurhaus was run as a public hotel open to locals and visitors whenever members did not occupy it, as the 1913 notary contract required. Its cellar held the wine store and laundry, while the ground floor housed the Deutsche-Michel-Stube, a club room and the large kitchen linked to other floors by a food lift.
The building stands in a park bounded by the Dörrebach stream to the north and the Krummschlag city forest to the west. The forest section was leased to the teachers' association for one mark a year on condition that its paths and benches stay open to the public during the day. The main entrance faces the former road bridge to Dörrebach.
The 1913 notarised contract shows how much Stromberg wanted the project: the town gave the teachers' association a meadow worth 18,000 marks free of charge and leased 6 hectares of its Krummschlag municipal forest for a symbolic 1 mark a year. In return the association had to keep the forest and its paths, benches and shelters open to the public during the day.
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