Brenner´s Parkvilla

History

In the mid 1920’s, Kurt Brenner crowned his hotel ensemble with the “Villa Knorring”; a stately building situated in large grounds between his two other hotels: “Brenner Hotel Stephanie” and “Brenner’s Kurhof”. The villa was transformed into the “Kasino Stephanie” and it became Baden-Baden’s sophisticated social centre.

At the start of the 1950’s, when the hotel was still under the management of Alfred Brenner, the Kasino Stephanie was renovated and renamed the “Parkvilla”.

Baden-Baden, 15 February 1962: Preliminary talks on the German/French friendship treaty. The guests of state resided in the Parkvilla. Since this date – a milestone in the creation of the European Union – Brenner’s is affectionately referred to as “the cradle of Europe”.

At the end of the 1960’s the Parkvilla under- went a 3 year extension programme, while in 1989 the Parkvilla penthouse was upgraded to the
‘Presidential Suite’, which was furnished by the highly experienced interior architect Countess Bergit Douglas. Her knowledge of art history and
culture and her unmistakeable taste were, and still are, the most important principles in the art of furnishing and design.