Ringhotel Schorfheide hosts seminars, conferences, retreats and weddings in 18 meeting and group rooms of 50 to 244 square meters, with 75 bedrooms on a 2.6-hectare site in Joachimsthal, in Brandenburg's Schorfheide-Chorin biosphere reserve. Besides the main house, groups can use the Jagdschloss Hubertusstock, a royal hunting lodge, and a boathouse on Lake Werbellin.
Seminars and company events
The hotel also trades as the Tagungszentrum der Wirtschaft and is built around residential meetings. Packages cover all meals and drinks and, depending on the formula, the overnight stay, with rates set by three seasons. Between sessions, the team runs activities on site: geocaching, an escape room, indoor golf and archery, plus outdoor, indoor, culinary and on-the-water event formats. The KochWerkstatt cooking workshop can serve as a group activity, and the boathouse is offered for a relaxed evening to close a meeting day.
Weddings and receptions
Wedding packages start at 40 guests. Celebrations take place in the hunting lodge, where the Hubertuszimmer seats about 70 and opens onto a garden terrace that can be lit with a fire bowl and torches. Weddings close at 2 a.m., after which up to 20 guests can continue in the vaulted Jagdkeller. A lakeside area of about 1,000 square meters next to the boathouse can be booked for outdoor symbolic ceremonies or larger events. The boathouse itself, rustic and seating 24 at one table, is meant for informal small gatherings rather than weddings.
Rooms and capacities
In the main house, Schorfheide 1 and 2 combine into a 244 square meter hall, or work as rooms of 131 and 113. Hubertusstock 1 and 2 form a 136 square meter room or two rooms of 68. The Konferenz Bibliothek measures 68 square meters, Seminarraum 1 measures 65, and breakout rooms run from 19 to 39. In the lodge, the 180 square meter Hubertuszimmer has daylight, parquet and a terrace onto the park; it takes 60 in rows, 40 in parliament style and 24 in a U, with a projector, screen, flipchart and pinboards. The upstairs Kaminzimmer, 65 square meters with a balcony and a six-meter fireplace, takes 24 in rows and about 40 for a dinner.
Accommodation
The hotel has 75 rooms with 147 beds. Comfort rooms are in the main house, Classic and RelaxPlus rooms are in guest houses 2 to 4 overlooking the park, and Superior rooms are in the quieter guest house 1.
Catering
The hotel restaurant caters every package, with day buffets, theme buffets and brunches. Wedding menus range from coffee and cake to seasonal or barbecue buffets and a midnight snack, with drinks packages. Boathouse evenings are served buffets from the banquet menu.
History and setting
King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia had the Jagdschloss Hubertusstock built between 1847 and 1849 in a Bavarian rustic style. Emperors Wilhelm I and II came here to hunt, and presidents Ebert and Hindenburg used it in the Weimar years. The lodge was taken down to its foundations in 1971 and rebuilt within a year on the original plan. As a GDR guest house, it hosted the 1981 meeting between Helmut Schmidt and Erich Honecker.
Getting there
From Berlin, drivers take the A10 ring and the A11 toward Finowfurt, then the B167 and the L220 through Eichhorst. Joachimsthal station is about 15 minutes away by car and Eberswalde station about 30, with taxis waiting there. A paid shuttle from Berlin Brandenburg Airport can be booked in advance.
