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Hotel Allegra

The Allegra, formerly Hotel Albrechtshof

The “Verein Christliches Kellnerheim e.V.” (a Christian association to provide waiters with homes) was founded 1903 and rented a house with 47 beds in the Mittelstraße 22.

The history of the Allegra is quite an interesting one.

After six years, they had 12,591 stay-overs, all by employees of the hotel and catering industry. Soon, the association had to buy a piece of land to build a new house. The hotel moved in 1911.

This house, called "Albrechtshof" (now Allegra), was located in the Albrechtsstraße 17. From this point on, it was the headquaters of the Berliner Gasthausmission. This organisation provides rooms for waiters, a job centre, a branch office, Bible hours, a publishing company, a Christian book store. Until 1926, it was the headquaters of the International Christian Waiter Association.

During the Nazi regime. the "Verein Christliches Kellnerheim e.V." was disband and the waiters'
house in the Albrechtstraße 17 was in danger of being disappropriated. So in 1941 it was transfered to the former caretaker Philip Weth. This made it a private home that couldn´t be seized.

After the war, the the town major of the Red Army needed the Albrechtshof (now Allegra) for the housing of his officers. In that time, Philip Weth was still in charge of the hotel -- sometimes at the risk of his life. Later, the government of the GDR seized the building. In the 80´s it was the headquarters of the "Volkspolizei", the East German Police, and there were plans to rebuild the whole house.

But 1989, with the fall of the Iron Curtain, the house was empty. After the Reunification 1990, the old waiters association came back to life under the name "Berliner Gasthausmission e.V.". With lots of effort and work, the association got the building back in 1995. But there was no money left, so they sold the name "Albrechtshof" to the hotel "Hospiz am Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse" which belongs to the Berliner Stadtmission. To renovate the building, it was tranfered to a company which was bought by the Berliner Stadtmission just a few years later.

In 1995, the Gasthausmission celebrated their first Christmas reception. In August 1997, parts of the hotel were reopened and the official opening was on the 6th January 1998. It was the year the house got his name, "Hotel Allegra"