Goethe, Schiller and Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands have stayed at this place, and in the ensemble seen today, built in 1899, the President of Germany, Friedrich Ebert, signed the Weimar Constitution on August 11, 1919 during his summer vacations. Expropriated in 1954 under socialist rule, the premises were converted into the recreation home "Ernst Thälmann" of the Deutsche Reichsbahn. From 1990 to 2020, they again functioned as a hotel.
With an interior obviously belonging to another era, the hotel is currently closed to undergo a renovation in line with accepted conservation practice.