Hotel Weißes Ross, Heritage hotel in Halberstadt, Germany.
Hotel Weißes Ross is a former bourgeois villa at Klamrothstraße 2 in Halberstadt, built 1910–1911 to plans by Hermann Muthesius in Heimatschutz style. Its sandstone rusticated facades form an approximately S-shaped body: a two-storey main building on an angled plan with an attached service wing, high tiled saddle and hipped roofs with dormers, and double-storey trapezoidal bay windows. A grey stone entrance arch with a rounded doorway and a curved salmon-coloured "Restaurant" sign stands before a paved courtyard.
Hermann Muthesius designed the villa, built 1910–1911 for the merchant Kurt Klamroth on what was then the edge of Halberstadt. After 1945 it served as refugee housing, and from 1949 to 1989 the state trading organisation HO ran it as the Hotel "Weißes Roß". Returned to the Klamroth family in 1992/1993, it was restored and reopened as a hotel with 80 beds.
The building's name changed with its use: Villa Klamroth until 1945, then Hotel Weißes Roß under the state HO from 1949 to 1989, and Hotel Unter den Linden since the 1990s restoration. The name Klamrothstraße 2 recalls the merchant family that built it.
The building stands at Klamrothstraße 2, on a plot that lay at the edge of town when it was built. The main house has two storeys, with a long balcony on the courtyard side and a terrace facing southwest off the ground-floor hall. An octagonal pavilion of rusticated masonry with round arches stands at the corner of the property.
The octagonal pavilion at the corner of the property, also in rusticated masonry, has round arches, round windows and a curved hood. It belongs to the 1910–1911 ensemble that Hermann Muthesius designed for the merchant Kurt Klamroth.
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