Das Hotel am alten Park in Augsburg is a city and conference hotel with nine meeting rooms and 72 bedrooms. It suits seminars, workshops, board meetings and training courses where the group also stays on site. The house stands at Frölichstraße 17, directly opposite the railway station, and is run by the Evangelische Diakonissenanstalt Augsburg.
Seminars and company events
The meeting offer is organized in four kinds of rooms. The Großer Saal and the Kleiner Saal are the two halls for plenary sessions and larger groups. Weitblick is a further named event room. The seminar rooms and the conference rooms complete the set, which makes it easy to run a main session and parallel group work under one roof.
The seminar rooms were designed with clean lines for groups of up to 20 people. Each measures 45 square meters with a ceiling height of 4 meters. The listed seating is 25 chairs in rows or 18 around an oval table. They are accessible without steps and follow the German DIN 14080 standard for seminar rooms. Free WLAN is available.
The three conference rooms are meant for small meetings and workshops, and they serve as extra rooms for group work during larger seminars. They measure 25 to 28 square meters with a ceiling height of 2.45 meters. Seating is 16 chairs in rows, or 10 in parliament or block layout. A flipchart and a moderation wall are part of the basic equipment.
Weddings and receptions
The official pages read for this entry present the house for meetings, seminars and hotel stays. Weddings and private receptions are not named, so ask the hotel before planning one.
Rooms and capacities
Seminar rooms: about 20 people, 45 square meters. Conference rooms: 10 to 16 people depending on the layout, 25 to 28 square meters. The Großer Saal, the Kleiner Saal and Weitblick are described on their own pages of the site, with downloadable seating plans for the rooms. The figures for the two halls were not available when this page was written.
Technology includes a projector with VGA and HDMI connections, a laptop, speakers, moderation cases, pinboards and flipcharts. A discussion system can be installed in the Großer Saal only. For active seminars the hotel lends training tools, yoga mats and indoor slacklines, about 15 meters long in the Großer Saal and about 10 meters in the Kleiner Saal.
Accommodation
The hotel has 72 bedrooms. The site lists basic single rooms, comfort single rooms, double rooms, premium double rooms and family rooms. Guests can stay in the same building where the meetings take place.
Catering
The restaurant zeit.los has a large sun terrace in the inner courtyard. The site also has a section on culinary offers for meetings. The hotel does not state on the pages read whether an outside caterer may be used.
History and setting
The hotel belongs to the Diakonissenanstalt Augsburg, a Protestant institution that also runs a city clinic and training schools. The site describes the location as green and quiet in the middle of the city, beside the old park.
Getting there
The hotel is at Frölichstraße 17, 86150 Augsburg, directly across from the main station. Parking information is given on a separate page of the site.
