Seminars and training days for up to 35 participants, residential courses with dinner and an overnight stay, and private or business dinners for up to 50 guests can be organised here. The venue is Hotel Restaurant Esser, a family-run hotel with 45 bedrooms in Kipshoven, a village in the town of Wegberg, near Mönchengladbach.
Seminars and company events
Meetings take place in a separate seminar house, built in 1992 across from the hotel. It holds four meeting rooms and a spacious foyer that serves as the arrival and break area, and a bistro inside the building is kept for seminar participants. All rooms have daylight and full technical equipment, and the seating is arranged for each event, whether a small working group or a training session with rows of tables.
Two packages structure the day. The half-day version includes a welcome coffee with pastries, a mid-morning break with fruit or yogurt, lunch with soup, a choice of three main courses and dessert (or a buffet), and afternoon coffee with homemade cake. The full-day version adds a dinner of soup, three main course choices and dessert, and can be combined with an overnight stay in a single room with breakfast buffet, which suits courses that run over several days.
Rooms and capacities
The seminar house takes up to 35 people in total. Tagungsraum 1 is the largest room and has its own terrace. Tagungsraum 2/3 is the smallest. Tagungsraum 4 sits on the lower level, also with its own terrace and a small coffee kitchen. The foyer links them and gives groups space for breaks.
For dinners and parties, the hotel's Gesellschaftsraum seats up to 50 guests for business or family occasions. The Stube, a smaller room overlooking the garden, works for business lunches and small gatherings, or as a buffet room next to the Gesellschaftsraum. In summer, the beer garden can be added to a booking.
Accommodation
The hotel has 45 rooms: singles, doubles, economy rooms and apartments in a separate building. Each has a TV, phone, internet access, a minibar and a bathroom with shower, and the breakfast buffet is included. Single rooms with a work area are the usual choice for seminar guests. Part of the rooms were renovated in 2023.
Catering
The hotel kitchen runs both the restaurant and the seminar breaks, with a seasonal menu. For celebrations, it offers all-inclusive packages for food and drink, so the host does not need to arrange anything separately. The restaurant is open for lunch and dinner on weekdays.
History and setting
The house started as a small farm with a grocery shop and village inn, and a photograph from 1895 shows it. Kurt Esser took over from his mother in 1968, and the family now runs the business in the third generation. It grew from a guesthouse with 12 rooms in 1976 to 24 rooms in 1984, added the seminar house in 1992 and an apartment building in 2000. The setting is rural and quiet, in a village rather than a business park.
Getting there
Kipshoven is reached by car from Mönchengladbach, Heinsberg, Düsseldorf and Cologne, as well as from Roermond and Venlo across the Dutch border. The hotel publishes directions on its contact page.
