Hotel Central - Solingen Ohligs, Germany Pre-WWII
Sticker or Label showing the Hotel Central in Solingen Ohligs, Germany, around 1940. My husband's great grandfather ran the hotel. I'm posting in hopes of getting more information on the place or town at that time. On the corner of Bahnhofstrasse and Düsseldorfer Strasse, The Hotel Kaiserhof (at least 1920) later became the Hotel Central. After that, an amusement arcade was and is located there again until now ( Bilder-von-Solingen ). 1907, 1960, 2013 ( BvS ). The Hotel Kaiserhof burned down in 1920 and was rebuilt towards the end of the decade as Hotel Central, ”Werner Janßen wrote to us. The modern architecture of the 1920s can still be recognized today by the horizontal lines of the facade. The great room in the hotel served as a casino for British occupation officers after the Second World War. Karl-Heinz Eggert remembers his first steps on the dance floor. In the Hotel Central he attended a dance course at the Wagner dance schoo...