Hotel Europejski, since 2018 Raffles Europejski Warsaw – a hotel in Warsaw, built in stages in the years 1855–1877 according to the design of Henryk and Leander Marconi. At that time considered the most luxurious in the city. It resumed its operations in 2018 under the Raffles brand.
In the mid-17th century, the hotel was the manor house of Jan Oborski, the starost of Sochaczew, and in the 18th century the baroque Ogiński palace. At the beginning of the 19th century, the property was acquired by a wealthy Warsaw carpenter Ferdynand Gerlach, who arranged a hotel there[4].
The building, designed by Henryk Marconi[5], was built on the site of the demolished Gerlach Hotel[4][6]. The part of the building facing the current Ossolińskich Street, Karaszewicza-Tokarzewskiego Street and Piłsudskiego Square was built in the years 1855–1857[5]. In the years 1857–1859, the part facing ul. Ossolińskich and Krakowskie Przedmieście[7]. The construction was completed in 1876–1877[7].
Hotel Europejski, since 2018 Raffles Europejski Warsaw – a hotel in Warsaw, built in stages in the years 1855–1877 according to the design of Henryk and Leander Marconi. At that time considered the most luxurious in the city. It resumed its operations in 2018 under the Raffles brand.
In the mid-17th century, the hotel was the manor house of Jan Oborski, the starost of Sochaczew, and in the 18th century the baroque Ogiński palace. At the beginning of the 19th century, the property was acquired by a wealthy Warsaw carpenter, Ferdynand Gerlach, who arranged a hotel there.
The building, designed by Henryk Marconi, was built on the site of the demolished Gerlach Hotel. Part of the building on the side of today's Ossolińskich Street, Karaszewicza-Tokarzewskiego Street and Piłsudskiego Square was built in the years 1855–1857. In the years 1857–1859, the part from Ossolińskich Street and Krakowskie Przedmieście Street was built. The construction was completed in 1876–1877.
The hotel was the first seat of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts and the next location of the popular Lourse confectionery (1871–1944). There were also shops and a restaurant on the ground floor.
During the January Uprising on 10 October 1863, the confectioner's apprentice Emilian Chodakowski was executed in front of the hotel for his participation in the assassination of the Tsarist agent Bertold Hermani.
The Europejski Hotel was the first modern hotel in Warsaw. In 1877, the hotel launched the first passenger elevator in the city. From the end of the 19th century, the building had central heating. At the end of the 19th century, it was considered the most exquisite hotel in the city.
In February 1918, an officer of the Polish Legions, Major Chancellor Ludwik Eydziatowicz, committed suicide in the hotel. In 1920, a bookstore of the Trzaska, Evert and Michalski company was opened there. In 1938 the hotel had 250 rooms.
During the defense of Warsaw in September 1939, a fire broke out in the hotel building.
After the war damage, the pre-war owners opened a restaurant and began renovating the building. In 1948, the hotel was taken over by the Ministry of National Defense and completed the reconstruction of the building for the purpose of the Felix Dzerzhinsky Military-Political Academy (1951–1954).
In the years 1957–1961, the building was re-adapted to a hotel, managed by the Orbis hotel group.
In 1989, an attempt was made to renovate the building, in which Gene Gutowski was involved, but it ended in failure. In 1991, the heirs of the property owners began efforts to regain it. In 1993, the pre-war joint-stock company Hotel Europejski was reactivated, and the Minister of Spatial Economy and Construction declared the invalidity of the 1948 ruling of the President of Warsaw refusing to grant the company temporary ownership due to the Bierut decree. In April 2005, an agreement was signed with Accor-Orbis, the company that owns the property, and in September it was transferred to Hotel Europejski.
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