Neckarstraße 2 · since 1923
Some buildings have an address. This one has a biography.
In October 1923, as Berlin reeled through hyperinflation and a loaf of bread cost billions, the innkeeper Max Schulze and his wife Anna signed a lease: rooms at Neckarstraße 2, “for the running of a hotel business”. Twelve rooms, two chambers, two kitchens, one bathroom. It is the birth certificate of the Thüringer Hof - and the beginning of more than a hundred years of hospitality at the same address, under the same name.
Max and Anna Schulze open their “hotel business” in a building owned by the senior architect Fritz Pors. The name nods to the home region of many of Berlin’s new arrivals: Thuringia.
Neukölln was growing fast. Anyone trying to gain a foothold in the city found a first bed at the Thüringer Hof: travelling salesmen, families, fortune seekers. Berlin has always been a city of arrivals.
A bomb struck Neukölln’s building authority and the archives burned. Of decades of this house’s history, only fragments remain: a lease, entries in the telephone directory. What time left behind is on display in the house today.
The house was handed on, rebuilt and renewed, and remained what it had always been: a hotel. The stag from the coat of arms moved into the logo and the rooms, a quiet nod to the Thuringian Forest.
A century at the same address. The apartments have long since been fully renovated: stucco and velvet alongside kitchens, Wi-Fi and washing machines.
Apartments in six categories, a reception desk with an old longcase clock, a neighbourhood full of life. The next chapter is written by our guests.
“Much was lost when the war swallowed Neukölln’s archives.
What remained is a house - and its story.”
