The InterCityHotel Braunschweig recently celebrated its topping-out ceremony. Located within the direct vicinity of the main railway station and the BraWoPark, a shopping and business centre which opened in November last year, the hotel will offer 174 rooms, a conference area, a bistro and a bar. Interior architecture is by the star Italian designer Matteo Thun, a multi-award winning artist who studied under Oskar Kokoschka before going on to hold a professorship at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
Thun’s work motto “eco – non ego!” (ecology, not ego) is a perfect match for Steigenberger’s Corporate Responsibility philosophy, and the company is set to embark upon a long-term cooperation agreement with him.
In his introductory address, InterCityHotel GmbH Managing Director Joachim Marusczyk emphasised: “The InterCityHotel Braunschweig means that we will establish a presence in a region which has the greatest concentration of scientific researchers in the whole of Europe. This is a perfect match for the highly successful product we offer. We are the only European hotel group to provide free use of local public transport via a “FreeCityTicket” included in the room price. It goes without saying that this scheme will be rolled out to what will be our 39th hotel. There is nowhere where this makes more sense than in a city which is considered to be the safest in all of Germany.”
The Hamburg-based B&L Group, with which the InterCityHotel GmbH has successfully and closely collaborated on several hotels in the past, is in charge of the overall implementation of the project. The architectural firms of Reichel+Stauth from Braunschweig and php prasch buken und partner from Hamburg are responsible for the design of the hotel. The general contractor is W. Markgraf GmbH & Co KG of Bayreuth.
The InterCityHotel will join the Steigenberger Parkhotel to become the company’s second representative in Braunschweig. Opening is scheduled for the autumn of 2016.
