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Description & Location

In the setting of a magnificent building in the architectural style of the Golden Twenties, you will find in the 285 rooms and suites elegance and quality, in a very special atmosphere. It was here that Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and Duke Ellington played in the legendary "Badewanne", it was within these same walls that David Bowie, Romy Haag and Lou Reed reveled in the no less legendary "Dschungel" and later television stars like Günter Pfitzmann and Edith Hancke stood on the stage of the "Berlin Theater" – a building with a long-standing tradition that has been transformed into the Ellington Hotel.

One of the striking facade of Berlin

Berlin’s new design-hotel boasts a renowned address, featured in every architectural guide to Berlin. Originally called the "Haus Nürnberg", the building is decorated with one of Berlin’s longest and most remarkable façades – perhaps even the most beautiful. The four floors above the full-length shop front are exposed by elongated strip windows. The walls are faced with elegant travertine, bordered by narrow bands of dark brick above and below the highly distinctive windows. The façade, 185 meters long, is composed of several sections, including stairwell towers and alcoves, and is thus not completely uniform. The strip windows are nestled into their rounded corners, giving the majestic façade an extremely dynamic feel. The two stairwell towers extend proudly above the flat roof. The entrances and the shop windows along the storefronts are made of brass, further contributing to the distinguished appearance of the structure, which was built between 1928 and 1931 under the influence of the innovative buildings designed by the Berlin architect Erich Mendelsohn.

A successful architect team 

 The Haus Nürnberg, also known as the “Tauentzien Palace” and the “Femina Palace”, was designed by an architectural team that was very successful in its time: Richard Bielenberg and Josef Moser. Since 1905, they had been making blueprints for numerous business and office buildings from their premises on Fasanenstrasse in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg. Their projects included the head-office for the Disconto-Gesellschaft (the predecessor to Deutsche Bank) on Unter den Linden, today the home of the German Guggenheim, the extension to the Zollernhof, now the capital’s main studio for German television station ZDF, and the headquarters for the A. Schaaffhausen'scher Bank Association on the Behrenstrasse, currently the main office for Bavarian federal state representation in Berlin.

However, the building which today houses the ELLINGTON HOTEL has not been made a protected building simply for its unique exterior design. The interior, with its lobbies, stairways, and halls, also preserves the charm of the late twenties and early thirties, boasting features such as white and green tiled walls, brass stair handrails, stucco ceiling ornamentation and gilded lettering on the walls. The owner of the building, the Märkische Bau- und Grundstücksverwertung-AG, spared no effort or cost. In 1932, the Deutsche Bauhütte magazine called the Femina Palace a “capital tourist attraction” and the German architectural society presented it as the “newest entertainment locale in Berlin”. These plaudits referred to only a part of the building, namely the ground floor of the structural element on the Lietzenburger Strasse with its rear two-storey ballroom. The four upper floors of the front building were not party to this merry-making during these economically turbulent times and were rented as offices.

Highlights

• Individually adjustable air-conditioning
• High-speed internet access in the rooms
• 50 parking spaces
• The Ellington continues old traditions and invites regularly to Jazz events (often as Sunday brunch or concert)

Location and Travel

With its central location between Ku’damm, Zoo and KaDeWe the ELLINGTON is the perfect address for a trip to Berlin.

Ellington Hotel

Nürnberger Straße 50 -55
10789 Berlin

Germany

Ellington

In the setting of a magnificent building in the architectural style of the Golden Twenties, you will find in the 285 rooms and suites elegance and quality, in a very special atmosphere. It was here that......