Hotel Aspethera in Paderborn offers seven meeting rooms from 30 to 280 square meters, a hall for up to 375 people in rows, and its own restaurant and cellar for dinners. Companies use it for workshops, lectures and conferences, and families book it for weddings and other celebrations. The hotel is at Am Busdorf 7, beside the Busdorf church.
Seminars and company events
The hotel describes itself as a conference hotel. Its rooms are air-conditioned and lit by daylight, and break areas are set up next to them. Meeting equipment includes flipcharts, pinboards, screens, projectors, sound systems with headsets, and large touchscreens for presentations and hybrid meetings. A planning checklist can be downloaded and returned with a request. Meeting packages, a program of activities around the event, and guided visits of the rooms by appointment are also on offer.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings, baptisms, birthdays, communion and confirmation parties and class reunions are held in the same rooms. The event team handles the welcome of guests, table decoration, personalized menu cards and the rest of the setup. The Adolph Kolping Saal is the largest space. The hotel invites couples to see the rooms and talk through their wishes on site.
Rooms and capacities
The Adolph Kolping Saal measures 280 square meters. As a whole it seats 160 people parliamentary style and 375 in rows. Split in half (140 square meters), it takes 60 parliamentary style, 36 in a U shape and 120 in rows. The Johann Dirks room (62.74 square meters) and the Anna Witte room (55.16 square meters) each take 36 people in a U shape or in rows. The Karl Schmitz room (46.99 square meters) takes 20 in a U shape or in rows. The Franz Vogel room (37.15 square meters) takes 18 in rows and 14 in a U shape. The Ferdinand Altstädt room (30.68 square meters) takes 16 in rows and 12 in a U shape. The Ausstellungsraum has a fixed oval table with armchairs for up to 15 people and also suits small family celebrations.
Accommodation
The hotel has bedrooms for business travelers, lists itself as a Bett+Bike hotel for cyclists, and has a sauna. The pages read do not give the number of bedrooms.
Catering
Restaurant Aspethera serves fresh regional cooking with southern accents, and part of it can be separated for small groups. It is closed on Sundays and Mondays. A hotel bar and a terrace in the shade of the Busdorf church are open to guests. Group formats include a barbecue buffet, a schnitzel buffet, a Westphalian medieval buffet in the Stiftskeller, and wine tastings.
History and setting
The website links the hotel to a foundation, Stiftung KOLPING-FORUM Paderborn, and names two sister hotels, Susato in Soest and Ardey in Witten. The setting is the old town of Paderborn, next to the church that gives the street its name.
