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Bad Segeberg (dpa / lno) - No reception, no bar, no pool and only one room.
A very small hotel is being built in the former transformer house on Kalkberg in Bad Segeberg.
The smallest in Germany?
Quite possible, but Cornelia Möller, who is responsible for marketing, cannot say for sure.
Craftsmen are still working on the slender brick tower, in which 15 square meters of living space are spread over two and a half floors.
The transformer house is the temporary culmination of an unusual hotel project within sight of the Kalkbergarena, in which hundreds of thousands of Karl May friends follow the adventures of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand every year - unless the corona pandemic prevents the performances, as has been the case since last year.
It all started in 2020 with the water tower, visible from afar, which now houses rooms on six levels and a lobby with bar on the ground floor.
There is also a farmhouse and, in the future, a tower and an administrator's house, each with apartments.
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How did you come up with the idea of converting such an extraordinary collection of buildings into a hotel and apartments in one place?
"We are Ur-Bad Segeberger," said Möller about the investor Michael Hintz and himself.
"It was an affair of the heart."
They simply wanted to make something beautiful out of a listed property.
At first it was only about the water tower, which can be seen from afar.
"That was a chain reaction," said Möller.
The Kalkberg Ensemble does not function like a completely normal hotel.
Since there are no central facilities such as the reception or breakfast room, many things run online in advance.
In order to get into the room, the door code is sent by SMS prior to arrival.
Breakfast is already prepared in the fridge, if desired.
Every object tells its own story, says Möller.
Therefore, the makers do not see their offer as a single hotel.
However, a common idea connects the buildings.
In terms of urban planning, the transformer house is the entrance to the historic road to the water tower.
They actually wanted to buy it in order to hand over the room keys for the water tower there.
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Bad Segeberg's mayor Dieter Schönfeld thinks a lot of the project.
"This is really a pearl for the city."
You benefit from the current attention for the project.
It is important for Schönfeld to preserve the historical building fabric.
"The challenge is to manage to retain the historical core of a building and fill it with fresh ideas and new, meaningful concepts."
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