With the new “City Garden” Apart Hotel, Petul Hotelbetriebs-GmbH are opening another colorful and lopsided hotel at the Zollverein World Heritage Site in the middle of the Ruhr Metropolis, an urban center heavily influenced by the mining industry, to join the company’s main establishment, the Petul Apart Hotel in Essen’s district of Stoppenberg. Erected in the 1950s as a home for unmarried workers in the Victoria Mathias coal mine, the building has now turned into a location to stay, explore and enjoy.Situated on green grounds with southern exposure and featuring a fitting room composition, the building proved an ideal choice for remodeling into a hotel. The tilted interior, meanwhile, required large investments to be made in straightening out the rooms. For architectural reasons, windows, hallways and balconies had to remain in their tilted state, creating the need for imaginative designs.
“We wanted to escape the uniformity,” Petul Director Ulrike Held-Peters elaborates on the concept. “As a result, we understand the lopsidedness of the historic building as its distinctive characteristic and use eye-catching color schemes to create unique recognition value.”
The second Petul theme hotel at the Zollverein World Heritage Site is situated close to the city in the midst of a green environment that provides outdoor space for a breakfast area and loungers. 39 rooms in the Business Standard and Business Comfort categories as well as apartments with kitchenettes for long-time visitors offer a bright and friendly atmosphere and are fashionably and comfortably appointed. High-quality materials such as oak wood, warm colors and sophisticated lighting systems turn each room into an oasis of tranquility.
Easy access to the public transportation grid and comfortable accessibility by car make the City Garden Hotel an attractive choice for both business and leisure travelers and an ideal starting point from which to reach all destinations in the Ruhr Metropolis quickly and easily. Having the Culture Route 107 right outside the doorstep, hotel guests are perfectly poised to reach the attractions of the Ruhr Metropolis with ease, one site of particular interest being the Zollverein World Heritage Site, an impressive industry memorial combined with the Ruhr Museum and the Center of the Ruhr region’s Kreativwerkstatt, whose 100 hectare premises lie in direct vicinity of the City Garden.
Petul Hotelbetriebs GmbH was founded in 1999 in the German city of Essen. The privately owned hotel group currently operates six hotels in Essen with a total inventory of 140 rooms/ apartments. The main establishment in the district of Stoppenberg, also the company’s flagship hotel, has long since made a name for itself beyond the borders of the Ruhr region, owed in large part to its lopsided and colorful facade. The philosophy of Petul Group is based on the management’s ambition to preserve historically noteworthy and structurally sound buildings to give them a new purpose as modern hotels.
The lopsidedness of many a building in the Ruhr region – legacy of the mining era – is seen here as an individual characteristic and incorporated accordingly in their architectural and visual modernization. Petul hotels are distinguished by centrality, modern comfort, up-to-date technical standards and flawless service for short and long-term visitors. With harmoniously matched colors, a sophisticated lighting system and appointments from high-quality materials such as oak wood, the stylishly designed rooms and apartments offer guests an oasis of tranquility to stay and unwind. Two additional Petul hotels are to be launched in Bochum and Essen by the end of 2011.
