You are witty and pretty! : Free Hanseatic city of Bremen in Germany

I promised Helen to post a few more photos from the Parkhotel in Bremen where I stayed for 4 days.

(I had only my cellphone, thus the photos are not utterly perfect, sorry).

This photo I copied from Wikipedia:

The Parkhotel has Five Stars and is a Hommage Luxury hotel (sadly I had to pay the full price because at the same time there was a congress).

It is situated in the Bürgerpark, (that was founded around 1860). In 1872/73 there was "only" a Festhalle:

then the Parkhotel was built in 1912/13 after plans of the architect Rudolf Jacobs - as Wiki says: a royal manor house in neo-baroque style.

It was destroyed in World War II, and rebuilt in 1954 - 1956, when they added East- and Westwings.

The dome had survived the airstrike, and they lifted it 1,40 m higher, and the whole building was enlarged from 65m to 100m.

Here you see a glimpse from the little balcony of the hotel room:

The Hollersee - a lake - is surrounded by massive Rhododendron bushes, which are so high that as a child I often played in them:

The Free Hanseatic city of Bremen is my Home city, and when I went to grammar school (an academic high school - I am never quite sure how the German "Gymnasium" is called in Great Britain or America - there you make the "Abitur" - an exam that is necessary to study at an university), I passed the Parkhotel every school day and thought: "I want to stay there once!"

The Power of Intention :-) - I even stayed there twice (first time we were upgraded to the suite in the dome, which was shere bliss).

Today I read in Wiki who stayed there too:

Michael Jackson, Bud Spencer, Sven Regener, (...) Robbie Williams, Siegfried & Roy, Herbert Grönemeyer and others, as the Swedish national footballteam in 2006. .

The first time I was there they still had imposant doormen - two respectable ponderous gentlemen with red long coats with silver buttons, a black tophat and - in Bremen, which has London weather - very useful: huge English umbrellas to lead you dry over the outside flight of stairs.

Now they are no longer there.

But the rooms still are luxurious - and the taps are still British: one for cold, one for hot water.