The first spa house “Kurhaus“ was thus built in 1843 to include the spa park, which is today much like it was then. With the discovery of the Radon caves by Dr. Aschoff in 1904, making known the powers of Radon to stop inflammations, the spa sector gained enormous importance in Bad Kreuznach.
The city fathers decided to replace the old Kurhaus with a palace-like hotel. They chose the famous architect Emanuel von Seidl, who designed the hotel in the very new Art Deco style with soft lines and smooth facades. The new Kurhaus hotel was opened on July 1st 1913 . During World War I, the German military headquarters were placed in the hotel and thus was the military seat of the last Kaiser Wilhelm II. At the same time the General von Hindenburg and General Ludendorff (chief of staff for the whole of the military) were also in Bad Kreuznach. During the Kaiser’s time at the Kurhaus - 1916 through 1918 - many of the head of state were here, like Zar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, General Mustafa Kemal Pascha, later known as Atatürk.
Towards the end of the1920’s spa business began to recover. The old bathhouse just behind this hotel was torn down and replaced with a grande ball room “ Kursaal “ which opened in 1930 and is still being used until this day. In this time period the popes’ Nuntius Eugeni Pacelli, who later became Pope Pius XII resided here as well.
In November of 1958 the french President Charles de Gaulle and Germanys Chancellor Konrad Adenauer met here to negotiate the French-German friendship pact. In 2012 the hotel was taken over by an Estonian Real Estate Group and has been operating under its management ever since.
The hotel offers 120 rooms and 11 meeting rooms with daylight! Every guest has entrance to the thermal bath "crucenia-thermen".
