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25-515: The five-star grand hotel is counted among the best hotels in Germany. The hotel was the first seaside resort in Germany and was founded in 1793 by the then ruler Friedrich Franz I . The operator is Grand Resort Heiligendamm GmbH & Co. KG. The Hotel was formerly managed by the Kempinski hotel group . The current hotel was founded in 1793 by Friedrich Franz I, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, as

50-561: A new Basic law elaborated by his First Minister Ludwig von Lützow . In the subsequent reaction of the Mecklenburg nobility, backed by the Strelitz grand duke George , all the concessions which had been made to democracy were withdrawn and further restrictive measures were introduced in 1851 and 1852. In the dispute over neighbouring Duchy of Holstein which culminated in the 1866 Austro-Prussian War , Frederick Francis II supported

75-750: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a Mecklenburg-Vorpommern building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Friedrich Franz I Frederick Francis I (10 December 1756 – 1 February 1837) ruled over the German state of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , first as duke (1785–1815), and then as grand duke (1815–1837). He was born in Schwerin , Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , to Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld . Friedrich Franz succeeded his uncle Friedrich as duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1785. Following

100-697: The Austro-Prussian War in 1866. Likewise in the west, the Duchy of Holstein was incorporated into the Schleswig-Holstein Province , after which Mecklenburg was almost entirely surrounded by Prussian territory. Beside the capital at Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Schwerin comprised the coastal cities of Rostock and Wismar , which had been held by the Swedish crown until 1803, as well as the inland towns of Parchim and Güstrow . In

125-868: The Napoleonic Wars , Friedrich Franz was raised to the dignity of grand duke at the Congress of Vienna . Along with his cousin in Mecklenburg-Strelitz, he was known as one of the most reactionary German rulers. On his death in 1837 he was succeeded by his grandson, Grand Duke Paul Friedrich . On 1 June 1775 in Gotha , Friedrich Franz married Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg . They had eight children: Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ( German : Großherzogtum Mecklenburg-Schwerin )

150-686: The Kingdom of Prussia, whom he aided with Mecklenburg-Schwerin soldiers. His grand duchy began to pass more and more under Prussian influence. In 1867 he joined the North German Confederation and the Zollverein . In the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), Prussia again received valuable assistance from Grand Duke Frederick Francis II, who was an ardent advocate of German unity and held a high command in her armies. In

175-766: The Ritterschaft, and the Landschaft, or burgomasters of certain towns. Mecklenburg-Schwerin returned six members to the Reichstag. Upon the suicide of his cousin Grand Duke Adolphus Frederick VI on 23 February 1918, Frederick Francis served as regent of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Shortly afterwards, on 14 November, he was forced to renounce the Mecklenburg throne in the course of the German Revolution . The grand duchy turned into

200-759: The World War II, Heiligendamm continued to be a spa. From 1949 to 1990 the Grand Hotel was the main part of the sanatorium for working people. In 1990 the sanatorium became the Ostseeklinik Heiligendamm. The Treuhandanstalt sold the package of 26 houses to the Median Clinic Group at the end of 1997. The real estate went to the Fundus Group. In 1996, Fundus Group of real estate entrepreneur Anno August Jagdfeld acquired

225-426: The baths to Otto von Kahlden in 1873. Von Kahlden had founded a stock corporation for the property, but then acquired the majority of the shares himself and thus became the sole owner. Under von Kahlden, the "Grand Hotel" was built, which later gave its name. After Otto von Kahlden's death, his son Rudolf von Kahlden took over. He sold the hotel to Walter John in 1911, who went bankrupt that same year. A consortium of

250-789: The border with the Hither Pomeranian (formerly Swedish Pomeranian ) region ran along the Recknitz river, the Peene , and Kummerower See . In the south it bordered with the Prussian Province of Brandenburg (with the exclaves of Rossow and Schönberg near Wittstock ) and in the southwest with the Amt Neuhaus district held by the Kingdom of Hanover , which was incorporated into the Prussian Province of Hanover after

275-501: The building. In February 2009, Kempinski terminated the operating contract after disputes with the owner Jagdfeld. In 2012, the Fundus Fond, which owned the hotel, filed for bankruptcy. The fund's investors lost a lot of money. In 2013 Fundus was sold to the entrepreneur Paul Morzynski from Hanover . Since 2020 am Adlon Golf & Country Club has been built around the hotel. The resulting extensive gated community corresponds to

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300-604: The course of the German unification in 1871, Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz became states of the German Empire . There was now renewed agitation for a more democratic constitution, and the German Reichstag gave some countenance to this movement. In 1897 Frederick Francis IV (b. 1882) succeeded his father Frederick Francis III (1851–1897) as the last grand duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In 1907

325-630: The duchy to the Swedish heir apparent Jean Bernadotte for his support. Duke Frederick Francis was the first member of the confederation to abandon Napoleon, to whose armies he had sent a contingent, and in the following War of the Sixth Coalition he fought against the troops of the First French Empire —with the result that his new allies, Prussia and Russia , now offered his duchy to the Kingdom of Denmark . Instead, Denmark

350-864: The early years of the French Revolutionary Wars Duke Frederick Francis I had remained neutral, and in 1803 he regained Wismar, which was pawned to him from Sweden. After Napoleon 's victory at the Battle of Austerlitz and the final dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, he joined the Confederation of the Rhine by a treaty of 22 March 1808. Napoleon , in preparation for the French invasion of Russia in 1812, disregarded this alliance; he offered

375-549: The facility and renovated the building and hotel. From 2000 on he renovated the building. Of the 200 million euros for the renovation, 50 million euros came in subsidies from public funds and were intended to create jobs. The newly renovated hotel opened in 2003, managed by the Kempinski Group. At the beginning of 2007 the five-star hotel was included in the exclusive group of Leading Hotels of the World. "In terms of image,

400-547: The facility in Heiligendamm. The daily business were still operated by Ostseebad Heiligendamm GmbH, so that the property of the Jewish-born Rosenberg was also visited by nazi promints, including Adolf Hitler himself and their guests, such as Benito Mussolini. For ideological reasons, the bath was expropriated from its Jewish owner in 1932 and converted into the so-called Kraft durch Freude -facility. After

425-421: The first German seaside resort. In the hotel stayed among others Rainer Maria Rilke , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Queen Luise of Prussia , Nicholas I of Russia, later Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini . The ground of the hotel complex belonged to the chamber property of the respective dukes or grand dukes of Mecklenburg and Mecklenburg-Schwerin from 1793 to 1873. Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II sold most of

450-425: The grand duke promised a constitution to his subjects. The grand duchy had always been under a feudal system of government, the grand duke having the executive entirely in his hands (though acting through ministers). The grand duchy shared a diet (Landtag), which met for a short session each year. At other times they were represented by a committee consisting of the proprietors of knights' estates (Rittergüter), known as

475-457: The hotel was at its zenith“ thanks to its strong media presence as the location of the G8 summit in 2007. As a result, thousands of anticapitalist activists blocked the roads to Heiligendamm and an estimated 25,000 anti-globalization protesters demonstrated in nearby Rostock ; the protesters had little effect on the leaders of the top industrialized nations because they could not get close enough to

500-582: The ideas of the hotel manager Anno August Jagdfeld, who was bothered by the strollers and cyclists on the premises. The complex consists of six buildings which were all built as a seaside resort between 1793 and 1870. It is renowned to be the first example of resort architecture . The main building ( Haus Grandhotel ) was built in 1814 and reopened on June 1, 2003 after three years of revitalisation work. 54°08′37″N 11°50′36″E  /  54.143692°N 11.843208°E  / 54.143692; 11.843208 This German corporation or company article

525-522: The larger central and western parts of the historic Mecklenburg region. The smaller southeastern part was held by the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz branch of the grand ducal house, who also ruled over the lands of the former Prince-Bishopric of Ratzeburg in the far northwest. The grand duchy was bounded by the Baltic coast in the north and the Prussian province of Pomerania in the northeast, where

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550-634: The major creditors bought the hotel to save their mortgage. The consortium continued to operate the plant in the form of a GmbH . As a result of the World War I and the following inflation, the GmbH ran into difficulties and the Louis Wolff KG bank, as the majority shareholder, became insolvent. In 1925, Oskar Adolf von Rosenberg bought the Louis Wolff banking house and thus became the owner of

575-680: Was a territory in Northern Germany held by the House of Mecklenburg residing at Schwerin . It was a sovereign member state of the German Confederation and became a federated state of the North German Confederation and finally of the German Empire in 1871. Like its predecessor, the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , the Schwerin lands upon the incorporation of the extinct Duchy of Mecklenburg-Güstrow in 1701 comprised

600-498: Was promised the adjacent lands of Swedish Pomerania by the 1814 Peace of Kiel and the rule of the Mecklenburg dukes remained inviolate. At the 1815 Congress of Vienna , Frederick Francis joined the newly established German Confederation , and like his Strelitz cousin Charles II , was elevated to the title of "Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin". In 1819 serfdom was finally abolished in his dominions. The Mecklenburg governance

625-427: Was still determined by the 1755 inheritance agreement ( Landesgrundgesetzlicher Erbvergleich ), which upheld the medieval hierarchy of the estates , which largely affected the social and economic development of both grand duchies. During the revolutions of 1848 , the grand duchy witnessed a considerable agitation in favour of a liberal constitution. On 10 October 1849 Grand Duke Frederick Francis II (1823–1883) granted

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