About & Around
Our hotel and the cathedral city
The Classic Hotel Harmonie is a real gem in Cologne’s city center and is one of the last privately run hotels in Cologne. The current hotel owner and operator is the second owner since the property was built. Previously, the Gülich family ran the hotel for two generations before putting it up for sale with a heavy heart in 1996. A new era began.
Back then, the hotel consisted of 40 hotel rooms, a hairdressing salon and a coach house – nothing like today.
Over the course of 20 years, the owner gave free rein to his creativity and created an oasis in Cologne’s city center. First, the 40 existing rooms were completely renovated before the number of rooms was expanded in three construction phases to 106 individually designed rooms, an artistically designed underground car park and a conference room.
The ideas for the conversion and design of the hotel are a collection of various short and long-distance trips – always on the lookout for new concepts, furniture or wallpaper.
The history of the Classic Hotel Harmonie
Sustainability at local level
Sustainability is becoming increasingly important and we are trying to leave a positive footprint, especially at a local level.
We work with:
– regional suppliers
– regional construction companies and partner companies, such as our carpentry or our nursery
– permanent staff; no temporary employment contracts or external companies
– in-house laundry and mangle to reduce transportation and CO2
– Rituals products in our rooms: sustainable dispensers; sustainable bottles
– you have the choice: towels on the bathroom floor = we change the towels. Towels on the hook = we leave you hanging
– Automation technology throughout the hotel: central control of heating and air conditioning as well as electricity
Will you help too?
