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  1. Escape to Hotel Liberty

    inVOYAGE | October 2017

    Despite a story oast as a prison, the new Hotel Liberty set in the German city of Offenburg has been transformed into the ultimate place to escape to, not from. Hotel Liberty's 38 rooms and suites are spread across two 19th-century buildings and joined by a contemporary glass boy which houses the restaurant, lounge, gallery and a library that boasts over 3000 tomes…

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  2. Luxury behind bars – Hotel Liberty in Offenburg

    Luxury behind bars – Hotel Liberty in Offenburg

    Woman of Today | October 2017

    Zelle Instead of rooms: The former prison in Offenburg It's recently been renamed Freedom and is a coolly styled design hotel. Instead of bunk beds with striped bedding, the 38 rooms offer...elleNow comfortable king-size beds. In the restaurant “Wasser & Brot“Star chef Jeremy Biasol is behind the grill, and in the “White & Brown Bar” Baden fruit brandies sweeten everyday prison life….

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  3. GREAT INTEREST IN THE HOTEL LIBERTY

    Great interest in the Hotel Liberty

    Badische Zeitung | October 04, 2017

    If there were an open house at prison, it would only be funny for the inmates. However, if the old prison on the... Grabenallee The fact that the building has been converted into the Hotel Liberty and is open to the public at any time is of interest to many. There was a huge turnout on German Unity Day, which the hotel, officially reopened on Saturday, declared an open house.

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  4. Luxury hotel opens in old prison in Offenburg

    Luxury hotel opens in old prison in Offenburg

    Badische Zeitung | October 02, 2017

    Everyone wanted to know what the new owners, brothers Christian and Dietmar Funk, had done with the old prison. Behind the thick prison walls in the Grabenallee Over the past 18 months, a state-of-the-art luxury hotel has been built….

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  5. A new story within old walls

    A new story within old walls

    Mittelbadische Presse | September 30, 2017

    A “modern” penal system was to be introduced in Baden in the mid-19th century: Grand Duke Leopold of Baden commissioned his court architect, Heinrich Hübsch, to design prisons modeled on those in Philadelphia. Years later, plans for a high-end hotel project took shape…

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  6. https://www.20min.ch/story/in-diesen-knast-gehen-sie-freiwillig

    You go to this prison voluntarily

    20 minutes | October 17, 2017

    Im OffenburgThe prisoners of the Baden Revolution of 1847 were once held here, the assassin of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble was held in pretrial detention here, and the National Socialists locked people up here in the small, dark cell.ellen their opponents away….

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  7. Sleeping behind prison walls

    Sleeping behind prison walls

    AHGZ | October 06, 2017

    The first impression is oppressive, despite the warning from hotel director Marc Aeberhard just seconds before: Stepping from the stairwell into the first floor corridor, one sees a wide, short passageway, bathed in a strange light by the backlighting from the windows and the grey walls….

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  8. Design Hotels welcomes seven new members

    AHGZ | September 2017

    The portfolio of design hotels is growing: The Berlin-based cooperative has added seven more hotels to its existing portfolio of 300 extravagant hotels. This includes THE LIBERTY in Offenburg, which is scheduled to open on October 1st…

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  9. Hotel Liberty Opens in the Black Forest, Offenburg, Germany

    Hotel Liberty Opens in the Black Forest, Offenburg, Germany

    DEPARTURES | September / 2017

    A former prison for radical thinkers has been reimagined as a destination hotel in the city of Offenburg, just over the French border. There's nohting cell-like about the 38 rooms and suites, which range in size from 183 to 258 square feet and feature oak floors…

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