Tourist accommodation in beautiful old manor house, Southern Germany, Allgaeu region

House and Rooms

All year round we try to ensure you have
a pleasant stay.

Haus Tanne has a long history. It has been an aristocratic hunting-lodge, a manor house, an inn.

In the year 1999, Haus Tanne was renovated in a comprehensive and careful way in order to maintain the old atmosphere but at the same time introduce modern standards. It has now become a comfortable hotel for seminars and breaks.

HausTanne is the ideal place for

cycling and hiking groups
those who want to explore a scenic part of Southern Germany
those who want to take a break in a quiet, natural surrounding
course groups travelling together with their teacher / trainer

Accommodation:

ideal for groups of 8 to 22. We have 8 large guest rooms - single or double - and an appartment for 4. Each with bathroom, telefone, internet access.
Ground floor:

hospitable, wood-panelled former tap-room as diner

TV room (equipped also with a computer and internet access)

First floor:

historic ball-room with murals, stucco ceiling, wood inlay to be used for functions, as atelier for painting courses, dancing lessons, meditation courses, etc.

Basement:

sauna and table tennis

Large garden.
Hiking trails starting right at our front door. Ideal for cycling in the summer and cross-country skiing in the winter.

Basically a non-smoker area, Haus Tanne provides a common room for smokers. No pets.

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Haus Tanne - The History

The house was originally built around 1820 as a manor-house and administrative base of a glassworks owned by the princely family von Quadt. It also must have served as a country hotel for lavish hunting-parties in the abundant woods of Kreuzthal.
The mural in the ballroom, which was certainly done a few years after the house was originally built, contains however no aristocratic motif. The main picture emphasizes the rural calm of the hilly countryside and shows a group of well-dressed blades on the bank of the creek "Eisenbach" behind the house. Perhaps the first tourists in the Kreuzthal?
The motto "Lieben Gästen gebt vom Besten" proves, that the house was already hotel. ("Give the best to dear guests.")

One can also see on the mural the glassworks village. The former glassworks, an early settlement on the Eisenbach, used wood that was readily available to operate their furnaces. Production was shut down in the 1890s. Only one of its wooden houses has survived until the present day. The history of this early industry can be pursued further at the Glassworks Museum in neighbouring hamlet Schmidsfelden.

In the 1920s the wooden day-lounge was built in the garden. By this time Haus Tanne had become a sanatorium. Haus Tanne's most famous guest and supposedly the most famous tourist who repeatedly visited the valley at that time was Mrs Daimler. (Daimler was one of the most important automobile pioneers in Germany.) After the Second World War, Haus Tanne was used for children to convalesce in the fresh air of Kreuzthal. Like several other buildings in the valley it came to be used as a child recreation center.

There are few records of the house and we are constantly discovering new details about its history. The above-mentioned murals in the ball-room were only re-discovered during the renovation of 1999. Due to the rareness and quality of these paintings, the house has now been included into the list of protected historic monuments in Baden-Württemberg.

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