The Gerbermühle takes conferences, meetings, receptions and private celebrations, from a confidential talk in a suite to a full buyout for up to 500 guests. It is a small design hotel with a restaurant, set in a former mill on the bank of the Main in Frankfurt am Main, with a view across the river to the city skyline.
Seminars and company events
Three event rooms are reserved for conferences, workshops and meetings. The hotel describes them as spacious and full of daylight, with current presentation technology, and its event team shares sizes and layouts on request, together with an information sheet. For small groups and discreet discussions, two suites can be booked as meeting rooms: Marianne, a maisonette of 89 m² over two floors with a dining area, and Johann Wolfgang, 85 m² with a living and dining room, a fireplace and a covered balcony.
After a working day, the Turmbar, set in the historic mill tower next to the restaurant, suits an aperitif, after-work drinks or a private dinner for a team. Organizers can hire a single room, an area such as the terrace or the winter garden, or the whole Gerbermühle for their group.
Rooms and capacities
The largest events, up to 500 guests and more according to the hotel, combine the indoor rooms with the outdoor areas. The restaurant opens onto a bright winter garden and a sunny terrace on the riverbank, and a large summer garden extends the space in the warmer months. The website does not publish capacities room by room, so the event team confirms the right layout for each brief.
Accommodation
Bedrooms range from standard doubles of 21 to 25 m² to superior rooms with a view of the Main or the skyline, three junior suites named Charlotte, Lili and Friedrich, the Johann Jakob park suite and the two larger suites. Most suites carry names of people linked to Goethe and to the history of the house. All rooms have air conditioning and fiber internet, which matters for guests who keep working in the evening.
Catering
The restaurant, open from Tuesday to Sunday, cooks modern dishes that mix Frankfurt tradition with international influences and regional produce. Event menus come from the same kitchen, and the Turmbar adds wines, selected spirits and classic cocktails.
History and setting
The site on the Main was first developed in the 16th century as a farm estate, then worked as a grain mill and later as a tannery. In 1785 the Frankfurt banker Johann Jakob von Willemer leased it as a summer residence. He invited Goethe, who met Marianne, Willemer's foster daughter and later his wife, and who stayed for almost a month in 1815, celebrated his 66th birthday in the house and wrote the poem Ginkgo biloba for her. The building was destroyed in the Second World War and rebuilt plainly in the 1970s as an inn. In 2001 Werner Kindermann bought the run-down mill, and the architects Müller & Jourdan restored it, adding a new hotel wing to the old walls.
Getting there
The hotel stands at Gerbermühlstraße 105, on the riverbank with the skyline in view. Out-of-town guests usually arrive through Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof or Frankfurt Airport, and the event team can be reached directly for any planning question.
