Hotel “Speicher Barth”

The Baltic seaport of Barth, an often frequented tourist center, is located at the entrance to the German peninsula of Fischland, Darss and Zingst. The town's geography is a guarantee for its future as a recreation area in the immediate vicinity of the Rostock and Berlin settlements. El puerto báltico de Barth, un centro turístico muy frecuentado, se encuentra a la entrada de la península alemana de Fischland, Darss y Zingst. La propia geografía de la ciudad garantiza su futuro como área de recreación para las inmediaciones de Rostock y Berlín. A harbor for larger yachts and smaller passenger ships, as well as a local airfield play an essential role in this regard. The agricultural wealth accumulated on the coastland and the development of the port both prompted a number of storehouses (“Speicher”) to be built at the end of the 19th century. Of these, the one reconstructed as an apartment hotel was the most important building, albeit neither the first nor the oldest. Measured by today's architectural standards, the old granary concept has proven extremely effective and constructively functional: The facades of hard-fired brick stand by themselves and are designed as enclosing walls that are closed and graded in their heights. Considering an upward decrease in loading, the exterior walls are 77 cm thick at the level of the first one and a half stories, thinning down to 25 cm at the top story level. Un puerto para yates de grandes dimensiones y barcos de pasajeros más pequeños así como un como un campo de aviación local desempeñan un papel urbano esencial en este sentido. A finales del siglo XIX, la riqueza agrícola acumulada en la costa y el desarrollo del puerto impulsaron la construcción de varios almacenes. De estos, el que fue reconstruido como un apartotel era el edificio más importante, aunque no el primero ni el más antiguo.