Drachenfelsstraße 30

The building at Drachenfelsstraße 30 is a former hotel building in Königswinter, a town in the Rhein-Sieg district of North Rhine-Westphalia, which was built in 1897/98. It is located immediately west of the railway line on the right bank of the Rhine and is a listed building.
The building was built as a hotel with the name Westfälischer Hof according to plans by the Bonn architect Johann Schwister for the baker and author Fritz Klein, who came from Castrop in Westphalia and had previously operated a hotel of the same name opposite the parish church. The foundation stone for the new building was laid on 25 September 1897 and the opening on 15 May 1898. Facing the railway line, the hotel had two large pavilions. Later, some conversions and additions were made to the hotel-restaurant, which was eventually called Westfalenhof, in the course of which a bending glass veranda serving as a café terrace was placed in front of the building. After the Allied occupation of Königswinter by French troops as a result of the Ruhr Battle in the spring of 1923, they set up their local officers' quarters in the Westfalenhof. During the Second World War, the hotel, which had 50 beds at the time, was evacuated in 1943 along with other facilities in Königswinter on the order of the Reich Defense Commissioner for the Cologne-Aachen district and rebuilt in September of that year to accommodate some of the Lindenburg hospitals that had been bombed in Cologne. On November 24, 1972, the attic of the Westfalenhof was partially destroyed in a major fire.

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