The Schwarzwaldhochstraße is one of the oldest holiday routes in Germany. It begins in Baden-Baden and runs south to Freudenstadt. The panorama road was created with the beginning of automobile tourism in the 1930s and leads through the northern Black Forest at an altitude of 800 to 1000 meters.
Restaurants and accommodations settled along the winding road. One of the most famous properties is the Schlosshotel Bühlerhöhe. Originally an officers’ convalescent home, it became a luxury hotel owned, among others, by industrialist Max Grundig and later Dietmar Hopp, co-founder of SAP. Today the property is in the hands of a Kazakh investor and has been empty since 2010.
The sophisticated house is not the only hotel along the Black Forest High Road that has been without an operator for years and whose future remains uncertain.
Unresolved cases of monument preservation
In addition to the former Kurhaus Hundseck and the Hotel Plättig, the Kurhaus Sand is also slumbering. Regular hotel operations were discontinued in 1994. The property could then only be booked for private parties. 2005 finally came to an end. After the death of the last owner, the “Paradiesbau auf Erden” foundation took over responsibility for the property.
The building from 1890 was designed by the architect Leonhard Trausch in the Swiss style. Inside, many of the rooms and the paneled hunting room with antlers, stuffed animal heads and crucifixes are relatively well preserved, but the investment needed for a revitalization is huge.
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