Hotel Löwengarten hosts seminars, training days and company meetings for up to 150 people seated theatre-style, along with company parties and family celebrations of a similar size. The family-run 4-star hotel stands in the historic center of Speyer, in Rhineland-Palatinate, directly beside the Gedächtniskirche, and offers 64 bedrooms, so a group can meet, eat and sleep under one roof.
Seminars and company events
The meeting floor gives more than 250 m² of space spread over several air-conditioned rooms. The largest format joins Purrmann I and Purrmann II into one room of about 175 m², which seats up to 150 in theatre rows or 80 in a parliamentary layout. Kept apart, the two halves work as a plenary room and a breakout room for the same group. The Bibliothek and Slevogt rooms suit boards and workshops of 15 to 40, and two small group rooms take 8 to 10 people for syndicate work. Rooms are booked together with a catering package, which keeps the day simple to organize: one contact handles room, breaks and meals. For technology, the hotel lists a sound system with handheld and headset microphones, flipcharts, pinboards and moderation kits, and a cannyboard, an 86-inch multitouch screen with a 4K camera, built-in sound and wireless screen sharing, useful for hybrid sessions. A dedicated events office handles meeting requests and celebrations.
Rooms and capacities
Purrmann I measures about 75 m² and takes 60 in theatre rows, 30 in a block or 25 around a U-shape. Purrmann II, at 100 m², takes 70 in theatre rows, 50 in a parliamentary layout and 40 in a U-shape or block. Combined, the pair reaches 150. The Bibliothek holds 40 in rows or 20 around a table, and Slevogt holds 40 in rows or 15 in a U-shape. The two group rooms of 30 and 36 m² serve small workshops. The main rooms are air-conditioned.
Accommodation
The hotel has 64 bedrooms, including suites and apartments. Categories range from standard and superior singles and doubles to triple and quadruple rooms, family rooms and apartments, which helps when a group mixes speakers, staff and families. Three rooms are adapted for guests with reduced mobility, and the hotel holds a barrier-free certification. A buffet breakfast with regional products is served each morning, and there is a bar for the evening.
Catering
Catering is handled by the hotel. For meetings, options run from welcome coffee and full-day break packages to two- or three-course business lunches, standing buffets with a Palatinate, Mediterranean or Asian theme, and three-course dinners. For celebrations such as birthdays, anniversaries, christenings or company parties, the team prepares menus or buffets from regional produce, suggests matching wines and can set up a full banquet.
History and setting
The Deisinger family has run the hotel privately for more than 40 years. Speyer is one of the oldest towns on the Rhine, and the hotel's address places a group within a few minutes' walk of the Romanesque cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and of the Technik Museum Speyer, both natural destinations for an evening walk or a supporting program.
Getting there
The hotel is at Schwerdstraße 14 in the old town. Parking and bicycle storage are available. Speyer's main station, served by S-Bahn trains from Mannheim and Heidelberg, links the center with the wider Rhine-Neckar region.
