| Grand Hotel Sopot | |
|---|---|
 Grand Hotel Sopot (2010) | |
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| Hotel chain | Sofitel |
| General information | |
| Location | Sopot, Poland |
| Address | ul. Powstańców Warszawy 12-14 |
| Opening | 1927 |
| Owner | Orbis SA |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Otto Kloeppel, Richard Kohnke, Erich Laue |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 126 [1] |
| Website | |
| www.sofitelgrandsopot.com/pl | |
Grand Hotel in Sopot is a historic five-star hotel located in Sopot, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. It currently operates under the name Sofitel Grand Sopot.
The hotel was originally built in 1924–1927 at a cost of 20 million Danzig gulden as the most refined hotel in Sopot - the Kasino Hotel. [2] [3]
Between 19–26 September 1939, the hotel served as Adolf Hitler's headquarters from which he went twice to the outskirts of Warsaw to oversee the invasion of the city.
Between 11–16 September 1966, the hotel hosted the 16th Pugwash Conference entitled Disarmament and World Security, Especially in Europe. [4]
On 13 December 1981, the hotel was the site of Operation "Mewa" (Seagull) carried out by the communist secret Security Service (SB) in which a group of Solidarity movement political dissidents was arrested including Lech Dymarski, Jacek Kuroń, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Karol Modzelewski and Jan Rulewski. [5]
In 1990, the hotel launched a casino, the third in Poland after Warsaw and Krakow. The Sofitel Grand Hotel is located at the seaside of the Gdańsk Bay, in the heart of the town and next to the beach. In 2006, the Sofitel Grand Hotel was totally refurbished and modernized while preserving the classical atmosphere from the earlier period. [6] In 2007, to maintain the history of Sopot as a Spa resort, the Grand Spa by Algotherm opened.
Some of the hotel's prominent guests include: [7] [8] [9]
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1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1932nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 932nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 32nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1930s decade.
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Sopot is a seaside resort city in Pomerelia on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland, with a population of approximately 40,000. It is located in Pomerania Province and has the status of county – the smallest city in Poland to have that status. Sopot lies between the larger cities of Gdańsk to the southeast and Gdynia to the northwest. The three cities together form the Tricity metropolitan area.
The Berghof was Adolf Hitler's holiday home in the Obersalzberg of the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany. Other than the Wolfsschanze, his headquarters in East Prussia for the invasion of the Soviet Union, he spent more time here than anywhere else during his time as the Führer of Nazi Germany. It was also one of the most widely known of his headquarters, which were located throughout Europe.
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Events in the year 1939 in Germany.
The following events occurred in January 1939:
The following events occurred in April 1939:
The following events occurred in June 1934:
The following events occurred in March 1938:
The following events occurred in September 1938: