The former Ahrenshoop art colony looks back on a long and eventful past. But also each house of our Romantic Hotel can tell its own story:

Café Namenlos (Café Nameless)
Already in 1912 Miss von Walsleben arranged for the house to be set up as a hotel. The plans for it had been drawn up by Walter Butzek, an architect from Rostock.

Miss von Walsleben, who was also the owner of the Kurhaus-Café, called it Bogislaw-Hotel.

In 1919 she sold the Kurhaus-Café and wanted to continue running her Bogislaw-Hotel as Bogislaw-Café. But the new owner of the Kurhaus-Café was afraid of competitors, and thwarted her plans: he managed to get the name Bogislaw-Café legally banned. The Berlin
designer Hermann Abeking however managed to save the situation by a mischievous idea. He proposed to simply name the café Namenlos, which translates as "Café Nameless". (As told by Friedrich Schulz: Ahrenshoop Künstlerlexikon, 2001).

In the late nineteen-twenties our family acquired the Café Namenlos. After having greatly modernised it between 2006 and 2007 our house now offers you even more quality and comfort.

Fischerwiege (Fisher's Cradle)
The Fischerwiege was built by our family and our family name is tangled up in it: traditionally a few houses on the Fischland isthmus were called Schifferwiege (boatman's cradle). This is what captains' homes were called. As our house was built on the Schifferberg a play on words arose: from Schifferberg over Schifferwiege to Fischerwiege (fisher's cradle).

So on 1 June 1996 we opened our hotel Fischerwiege. In the foyer you can see an exhibition of fascinating works by painter Paul-Müller-Kaempff. His oil paintings take the viewer back to the old Ahrenshoop of the beginning of the last century.

Guesthouse Bergfalke (Mountain Falcon)

The guesthouse Bergfalke owes its name to its builder Mr. Falkenberg.He used the house as a summer residence for himself and his family. However, due to financial reasons – he had unfortunately run into debts because of his capital investment in the local swimming bath Ribnitz, today's Dierhagen-Strand – he had to sell his house in the 1930s. The new owner of the Bergfalke, Walther Bachmann, also owned the aircraft factory in Ribnitz.

In 1945 the Russian allies handed over the place's administration to the Cultural Association of the GDR. The seaside village Ahrenshoop was to be maintained as a resort for artists. Thus from 1945 to 1989 the Bergfalke was managed by the Cultural Association of the GDR.

In May 1992, after extensive refurbishment, our family could reopen house Bergfalke as a guesthouse.

Dünenhaus (Dune House)
The little barrack-like summer residence certainly has the longest and most inconsistent past.
It was built by the retired Major Schmidt at the beginning of the 20th century. He had grown
fond ofAhrenshoop while spending his holidays at the Paetow farm. However, he didn't own the Dünenhaus for long: his neighbour, the painter and professor Wachenhusen, bought it for two of his sisters. But over the following years it was not merely used as their home – professor Wachenhusen also gave art lessons here, and so a number of pupils stayed at the Dünenhaus.

After 1918 Wachenhusen sold the Dünenhaus to the busy innkeeper Franz Peter, and he again left it to the dentist Professor Dr. Reinmöller from Rostock. Reinmöller, however, was a National Socialist and disappeared without a trace in 1945.

After 1946 the Dünenhaus like the Bergfalke served the members of the Cultural Association as a resort. Even Johannes R. Becher, the former president of the Cultural Association, liked to spend his holidays at the Dünenhaus.

In 1993 our family finally bought the house. Today it is used as a cultural venue. Especially during the winter months seminars, workshops, conferences and family celebrations take place here. But you can also find a collection of paintings created by the founders of the Ahrenshoop art colony here. In this surrounding you feel particularly close to the cultural spirit of that time – even today.

We would like to invite you to join us in following the trail of the old Ahrenshoop painters from here.