Hotel Deutsche Eiche in Northeim!

History

From resting place to a modern city hotel.

100 years of Hotel Deutsche Eiche

Everything has begun on the 16.10.1908 as Fritz Köhler and his wife Emma thought the building and opened a restaurant.

It was not an easy undertaking but the couple was young and full of thirst for action. And thus everything was beginning very well. The peasants from the surroundings came willingly to the Eiche and were sure their horses be good saved and provided, when they were doing shopping in the town, wanted to go to the market or were dealing with livestock.

And besides everybody was glad to come together and drink a beer or to ingest a hearty meal.

It was going forward, in the family as well. Children were born, Fritz, August, Berthold and Emmi Köhler.

The world seemed to be all right, until the war from 1914 till 1918 defeated all the dreams and hopes. Yet Fritz Köhler was favoured by fortune and could come back to his family again.

Little by little the normal time turned up again.

To keep up with time and to satisfy the needs of the guests there would be planned and build. Horse barns were converted into garages, the enterprise had got a first telephone in the town and guest rooms were built over the garages. But the biggest attraction was the splendid roller organ, which placed for a dance and a entertainment.

The children grew up and Fritz Köhler had to become a next Eichen-innkeeper. 1937 he married his wife Margarete, and the couple has got two sons. Rainer and Jürgen Köhler. Rainer was the older one and later on he had to continue the tradition.

But prior to this one had again to cope with a very heavy time. The second World War came.

Fritz Köhler had like all other men to go to the front, but 1950 he came back from the war captivity in Siberia. He found the house in a good condition and good furnished.

His efficient wife and mother had done everything with a lot of fantasy, power and improvisation to hold the enterprise at work.

The house was not confiscated and occupied by the winner forces, since not all rooms of it were equipped with running water and heating.

If you want to read more, you can open our history here as a PDF file:

• historie.pdf (13,3 KB, in german language)