Weddings, anniversaries, balls, concerts, seminars and training days for up to about 110 guests can be organized in three traditional halls at the Elefant Hotel, a hotel, restaurant and event venue on Goethestraße in the center of Schwerin. With 33 bedrooms and its own kitchen, the house can run a meeting or a family celebration from the welcome coffee to breakfast the next morning under one roof.
Seminars and company events
The hotel sells day meetings from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in two packages. The Economy package covers the room and its technology, soft drinks and water, a lunch with a main course and dessert, and a coffee break. The Superior package adds a welcome coffee with fruit, juices, a lunch buffet with salads and two main courses, and pastries at the break. Packages are calculated from 20 participants, and smaller groups may pay a supplement for room and equipment. The house has a full HD projector and screen, two pinboards, two flipcharts, a facilitation kit, a sound system with wireless microphones and a lectern. Bedrooms are offered at a special rate together with a meeting.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings, family celebrations, anniversaries and balls are a core use of the halls. The Elefantensaal is shown laid out for weddings with a U-shaped table, and the Großer Saal has its own bar, a stage and room for a dance floor. The hotel keeps a wedding suite with a whirlpool bath for the couple.
Rooms and capacities
The Großer Saal has a high ceiling with partly uncovered old wall paintings, a bar and a stage with modern lighting and sound. The venue currently limits it to 110 guests until further notice. Its layout table lists 80 at round tables with a dance floor or 96 without, 130 to 160 at long banquet tables, up to 220 in rows and 50 in a conference layout. The Elefantensaal, built in 1870, seats up to 50 and opens through large folding doors onto a small room behind it and onto the restaurant in front. As it doubles as the breakfast room, it is usually free from 11:30 a.m. Joining the Großer Saal, the small room, the Elefantensaal and the restaurant gives space for up to 190 guests with a dance floor.
Accommodation
The 33 bedrooms include standard singles and doubles, larger superior doubles with a sofa bed, two suites with a separate living room, and the wedding suite.
Catering
The restaurant and its kitchen are part of the venue and cater events in the house, from a plated meeting lunch to a buffet. In summer the restaurant adds a terrace.
History and setting
The building began in 1860 as a single-story pottery workshop. In 1870 a cigar maker added a floor along with the Elefantensaal and a club room. A tobacco factory followed, and in 1895 the brewer Anton Feldtmann took over the house and added a dance and concert hall, with Feldtmanns Restaurant opening the next year. After 1950 the hotel wing served as state offices while the restaurant carried on. A three-year restoration and extension began in 1995. The old town, the market square with the cathedral and Schwerin Castle are a few minutes away on foot.
Getting there
The address is Goethestraße 39/41, 19053 Schwerin. The hotel has a car park and a garage, reached through the courtyard entrance at Mecklenburgstraße 101.
