Hotel Hardtwald suits seminars, workshops, training days and small company retreats, with three meeting rooms with daylight, from 24 to 132 m², and 35 bedrooms in the same house. Family-run since 1902, the hotel stands at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in the Hardtwald forest, at Philosophenweg 31 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, within walking distance of the town center and the Kurpark, north of Frankfurt.
Seminars and company events
The hotel team supports organizers from the planning stage to the day itself. Rooms can be set in U-shape, as a circle of chairs or in rows. Equipment includes a projector and screen, flipcharts, Metaplan boards, and side tables for materials and drinks. The forest around the house has a fitness trail, running routes and hiking paths, which groups can use for a walk or an outdoor break between sessions. A meeting brochure with further details is available on the hotel website.
Rooms and capacities
The Gartenzimmer covers 81 m². It is bright, air-conditioned and opens directly onto the garden, and the hotel recommends it for workshops and seminars. The Pavillon covers 51 m², with parquet, air conditioning and a view over greenery. The two rooms can be combined into a single space of 132 m². The Hardtwaldstube, 24 m², is a quiet room for small meetings or for use as a breakout room. All three rooms have daylight. The meeting page gives room sizes but no seating capacities, so the layout and numbers should be confirmed with the request.
Accommodation
The hotel has 35 rooms for business and leisure guests, so a seminar group can stay together under one roof. The house has no elevator: rooms are reached by stairs, and a first-floor room can be reserved on request. Well-traveled dogs are welcome.
Catering
Breakfast is a buffet with bread and rolls, eggs, fruit salad, muesli, dairy products and vegan options, served with mostly organic or Fairtrade coffee and tea. It runs Monday to Friday from 7 to 10 a.m., and from 8 to 11 a.m. on weekends and public holidays, on the forest terrace when the weather allows. In the evening, the restaurant offers a short seasonal menu from Monday to Thursday, served from 5:30 p.m. in the forest garden or on the terrace in good weather.
History and setting
The family tradition goes back to 1828, when Friedrich Franz Scheller took over a guesthouse in Bad Homburg. In 1902, Gottlieb Scheller took over the Hardtwald restaurant. He had worked as a ship's cook on transatlantic crossings of the Hamburg-America Line and had run the restaurant at the Saalburg, where he catered the opening of the reconstructed Roman fort. Sophie Scheller, born in 1840, married Adam Opel in 1868. Waltraud and Alwin Kurze later ran the hotel for decades, and Christiane Kurze has managed it since 2019, with her mother Waltraud as adviser. The hotel marks 125 years in 2027.
Getting there
The address is Philosophenweg 31, 61350 Bad Homburg. The hotel describes quick connections to Frankfurt am Main and to Frankfurt Airport, and the town center and the Kurpark can be reached on foot.
