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COMPANY PROFILE

The beginnings of the Probst businesses

Before the Probst family managed the building, the well-known politician, journalist and writer Kurt Eisner (keyword: November Revolution of 1918) lived here in 1908/09 as editor-in-chief of the "Fränkische Tagespost".

The history of the Probst businesses started with their founder Georg Probst. On March 26, 1911, the then senior partner opened together with his wife Friederike in the upper Wörthstraße 6 a butcher, which due to the century inflation in 1923, however, had no permanent existence. But a few years later, the change in the Luitpoldstraße took place with much creative power: The four-storey sandstone quad building in Luitpoldstraße 9 was already built in 1899. Special details include the mansard roof as well as the façade with Chörlein in the New Nuremberg style. Incidentally, the original residential and commercial building is today protected as a single monument or joins the Ensemble Altstadt. In addition to commissioning a wholesale butcher in 1927 followed in 1929 in the same estate, the establishment of a large restaurant with 500 seats.


As early as 1937, he joined the Hotel and Restaurant Association. In the course of the Second World War bombed in Nuremberg, these operations also succumbed to a devastating Anglo-American bombing raid: The building was destroyed except for the foundations. After the war, the butcher shop was rebuilt, the establishment of a self-service fast-food restaurant and a unique dance café, the Café Trocadero. On the upper floors, a hotel with about 25 rooms was added.

The Nuremberg Old Town

The historic old town of Nuremberg is divided into two parts: to the north is the district St.Sebald, in the south its counterpart St. Lorenz (formerly also known as "Laurenzer side"). This quarter is named after the patron saint of the same-named Lorenzkirche (gothic church building from the late Middle Ages) - as well as its counterpart to the older St. Sebald church.

In the city area flows as a source river of the Regnitz the Pegnitz and crosses many bridges and bridges. It is particularly worthwhile to visit the Kettensteg, an iron suspension bridge from the first half of the 19th century.

The Nuremberg Old Town

The historic old town of Nuremberg is divided into two parts: to the north is the district St.Sebald, in the south its counterpart St. Lorenz (formerly also known as "Laurenzer side"). This quarter is named after the patron saint of the same-named Lorenzkirche (gothic church building from the late Middle Ages) - as well as its counterpart to the older St. Sebald church.

In the city area flows as a source river of the Regnitz the Pegnitz and crosses many bridges and bridges. It is particularly worthwhile to visit the Kettensteg, an iron suspension bridge from the first half of the 19th century.

Attempt of a chronological demolition of the Luitpoldstraße

Once upon a time, on the site of what is now Luitpoldstraße, was the Klarakloster, which was founded in the thirteenth century and found its decline, triggered by the religious dispute, during the Reformation period. A first and at the same time clear appreciation received the Luitpoldstraße already in the year 1846, when the state station (today: main station) in the immediate vicinity took up its transportation system. Soon after, he was joined by some exclusive business addresses and correspondingly innovative venues. By name we should mention here at the beginning of the 19th century:

*** 1900 Luitpoldsäle (large beer hall)
*** 1901 Luitpold vending machine (vending machine restaurant)
*** 1908 conservatory (variety)
*** 1912 Luitpold-Lichtspiele (aka Lu-Li-Kino, later renamed Rex)

In the 1920s, the Tzateschewa-Diele, which settled between the bar and the café in particular, referred to the Bulgarian singer Manja Tzateschewa. As other coffee houses here are reminiscent of Neptune, Habsburg and Hitzler.
The 1960s established the era of nightclubs and dance halls: Cin Cin, Big Apple, Horse Stable, Coupe, Gaslight, Trocadero and Mackie Messer - there was no shortage of creative names. Just named the Trocadero was in the same building as the hotel Probst and was independently managed by the family Probst. Of course, also bars and pubs were not missing: here is representative of many others in addition to the Queen-Bar especially reminiscent of the almost legendary Altbayern.

In the 1970s, one could observe a turn towards the adult establishment: the former Rex cinema gave way to an erotic center that soon followed by other "offshoots". Later, in the same building as the Hotel Probst, the Münchener Kindl (nightclub), the Irish Pup Shamrock popular on many American GI's, established itself on the corner of Luitpoldstraße / Vordere Sterngasse and Club Marilyn opposite our hotel.

Everyone is one thing in common today: they no longer exist.
Once upon a time, on the site of what is now Luitpoldstraße, was the Klarakloster, which was founded in the 13th century and found its decline, triggered by the religious dispute, during the Reformation period. A first and at the same time clear appreciation received the Luitpoldstraße already in the year 1846, when the state station (today: main station) in the immediate vicinity took up its transportation system. Soon after, he was joined by some exclusive business addresses and correspondingly innovative venues. By name we should mention here at the beginning of the 19th century:

*** 1900 Luitpoldsäle (large beer hall)
*** 1901 Luitpold vending machine (vending machine restaurant)
*** 1908 conservatory (variety)
*** 1912 Luitpold-Lichtspiele (aka Lu-Li-Kino, later renamed Rex)

In the 1920s, the Tzateschewa-Diele, which settled between the bar and the café in particular, referred to the Bulgarian singer Manja Tzateschewa. As other coffee houses here are reminiscent of Neptune, Habsburg and Hitzler.
The 1960s established the era of nightclubs and dance halls: Cin Cin, Big Apple, Horse Stable, Coupe, Gaslight, Trocadero and Mackie Messer - there was no shortage of creative names. Just named the Trocadero was in the same building as the hotel Probst and was independently managed by the family Probst. Of course, also bars and pubs were not missing: here is representative of many others in addition to the Queen-Bar especially reminiscent of the almost legendary Altbayern.

In the 1970s, one could observe a turn towards the adult establishment: the former Rex cinema gave way to an erotic center that soon followed by other "offshoots". Later, in the same building as the Hotel Probst, the Münchener Kindl (nightclub), the Irish Pup Shamrock popular on many American GI's, established itself on the corner of Luitpoldstraße / Vordere Sterngasse and Club Marilyn opposite our hotel.

Everyone is one thing in common today: they no longer exist.

The Luitpoldstraße today

Beginning in the 1990s, a major change took place in small steps: The Free State of Bavaria bought the area at the adjacent Klarissenplatz and tore off the Rex and other buildings. Shortly afterwards, in 1996, the State Museum of Art and Design was built Celebrated its inauguration in 2000. This cultural project is rounded off by the Literaturhaus-Nürnberg, a café with a literary program and the Kunst-Buchhandlung Walther König, intrigued in the museum complex. Artists in the context of Nürnberg.Pop (festival) are also annually - u.a. also in the Luitpoldstraße - a rendezvous - and populate the old town.

This bustling cultural scene is complemented today by the KoKoNo (Pan Asian cuisine & sushi bar) next door, the iconic fast food restaurant WurstDurst, the restaurant LêBar (Indian cuisine interpreted in a modern way), the club Rosi Schulz, the hookah bar Society and last but not least the new lounge Harlem Bar (in the same house) our hotel, on the ground floor). One of the latter and most prominent new additions is Alexander Herrmann's double concept on the corner of Königstraße: Since 2017 you can dine on the ground floor in a Franconian-casual (Fränk’ness) and on the upper floor (“Imperial”) at first class level.