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Hotel Schwarzer Adler

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The Zum Schwarzen Adler (The black eagle) was one of the most famous and oldest hotels in Chernivtsi. The Zum Schwarzen Adler was built by Samuel Schätz in 1862/63 and for the first six years it was rented by Johann Weiss. On the ground floor there was a restaurant, a café and a bar. As a grand hotel, it was the preferred address of high-ranking visitors to the city, such as presidents of chambers of commerce, ministerial officials, bank directors and military officers (Czernowitzer Allgemeine Zeitung, 4 June 1913, p. 11).

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1862 - 1863

Due to its exposed location in the centre of the city, directly on the Ringplatz, it was part of an architectural ensemble that had been built since the end of the 1840s (Town Hall, Hotel Bellevue, the neighbouring Secessionist building of the Savings Bank, etc.). The building, which stood on the corner of Ringplatz 5/Tempelgasse 1, also housed various shops that advertised with the name of the hotel Schwarzer Adler (e.g. watchmaker Salomon Ehrlich, shops for men's, women's and children's fashions such as Teitler & Sternberg or Heinrich Sekler's À la Ville de Paris). The hotel was completely renovated in 1904. From then on, guests could enjoy an “elegant bathing salon” and “the most elegant salons and halls were newly furnished” for “festive evenings, dinners, suppers, weddings and other events” (advertisement in: Czernowitzer Allgemeine Zeitung, 30 November 1904, p. 8). The hotel continued to operate during the Romanian period. The roof of the building now bore the large advertising slogan ”PHILIPS RADIO”.

Text: Markus Winkler