Hotel Hellers Krug can take a meeting of up to 30 people, a group dinner of up to 60 and family celebrations such as civil weddings, confirmations and memorial gatherings, with 38 bedrooms on site. The hotel stands at Altendorfer Strasse 19 in Holzminden, a town of the Weserbergland at the edge of the Solling hills.
Seminars and company events
The meeting room seats up to 30 people, depending on the layout; set as a U-shape it takes 16. It comes with a projector, a screen, a sound system, two pinboards and two flipcharts, and some of these items are charged separately. According to the restaurant page, other rooms in the house can hold meetings of up to 60 people. Lunch for conference groups is served by arrangement.
The hotel also offers team activities: a high-ropes course, geocaching, and group or professional photo shoots in its in-house photo studio. In winter, the kale hike, a regional custom of walking before a dinner of kale, is on the list of group outings. The hotel says it is one to two hours by road from Hannover, Göttingen, Hildesheim and Paderborn, which suits regional teams meeting halfway.
Weddings and receptions
Civil weddings appear among the occasions the hotel caters for, alongside confirmations and communions, bachelorette parties and memorial gatherings. The restaurant hosts family celebrations, business meals and informal group evenings. Bachelorette groups can start with a photo shoot in the studio and continue with dinner.
Rooms and capacities
The hotel publishes seat counts for each dining room. The Sollingstube takes up to 40: 32 in a U-shape, 32 in two long rows, 22 in a single diagonal row or 32 at three blocks of tables, and two tables of four under the shingle roof add eight seats. The Dorfstube takes up to 32, or 22 around one block table. The bar side, the Thekenseite, takes up to 24. The restaurant has 60 seats in all, and the meeting room takes up to 30.
Accommodation
The 38 bedrooms were added in 1970 in the back garden, in two buildings surrounded by greenery, and they have since been renovated. Categories include comfort, business, economy and family rooms, an accessible room and a room for trade fair visitors. Every room has satellite TV and Wi-Fi.
Catering
The restaurant currently opens only for groups and events booked in advance, without à la carte service in the evening. The kitchen serves seasonal menus that change every month, small hearty dishes and a breakfast buffet, with a broad wine list. Beer comes from the Allersheim and Einbeck breweries, and the Einbeck brewery has supplied the house since 1854. In summer, meals are also served on the terrace, and finger food is offered for receptions.
History and setting
The middle section of the half-timbered house was built around 1650, and the inn is recorded in a population census of 1663. In 1837, a document of the Duke of Brunswick granted it a permanent right to serve beer. A small window in the taproom recalls the ducal tax collector who received payments there from the people of Altendorf. Fritz Dauer inherited the inn in 1954 from his aunt Minna Heller, and Carsten-Thomas Dauer, a trained cook and hotel business economist, took over in April 2000. The hotel belongs to AKZENT Hotels.
Getting there
The hotel is about 1.5 kilometers from the Weser and lies on the Weser cycle route. Holzminden has a railway station, and Hannover is the nearest large airport.
