Berliner Hof, Heritage guesthouse in Nauen, Germany

Berliner Hof is a historic guesthouse in Nauen featuring an ornate stucco facade and timber-frame construction. The property includes a side building that housed kitchen facilities and reception spaces.

The front house was probably built around 1710 in timber framing, after Nauen's 1695 town fire. From at least 1877 Wilhelm Kraatz ran the inn Zur Stadt Berlin here; around 1895 a side wing with kitchen, hall and rooms was added. In 1901 the visible timber facade was replaced by the surviving stucco front, and the inn was likely renamed Berliner Hof. In 1906 Hermann Bruss bought it.

The name Berliner Hof, adopted around 1901, replaced the earlier Zur Stadt Berlin. The stucco facade carries Berlin's coat of arms with its bear beneath the gable, and a horse's head above it recalls the inn's former role as an Ausspanne, a stopping place where travellers' horses were fed and changed.

The entrance is a gateway (Torweg) on Goethestraße that leads through to the courtyard behind the front building. The side wing's gable is to gain a terrace overlooking the old town, and the vaulted cellar, probably older than the front building, is being relieved structurally. The site lies in Nauen's Altstadt, a short walk from the town centre.

Between 1945 and 1958, the German Red Cross used this building as a facility, a lesser-known chapter in its story. This period reveals how the structure served broader purposes beyond hospitality.