Residential seminars, team retreats, family celebrations and weddings can be organized at the Romantik Hotel Landhaus Bärenmühle, a country hotel in a quiet valley near Ellershausen, part of Frankenau in northern Hesse. It offers four meeting rooms, the largest a 125-square-meter hall with daylight and its own terrace, plus two restaurants and a lakeside garden for receptions.
Seminars and company events
The hotel presents itself as a place in the middle of Germany in complete seclusion, and its seminar offer is built on that idea: few distractions, rooms looking onto meadows and woods, and breaks taken outdoors. Seminar chairs, flip charts, whiteboards and a projector are included in the room hire, and further equipment can be arranged on request. Seating is set up to match each program. The hotel also publishes support programs for groups, an outdoor section for sessions and activities in the open air, and a home office offer for people who want to work remotely for a few days. Yoga, Pilates, massages, Ayurveda treatments, forest bathing and the sauna by the lake can fill the hours between sessions.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings and private celebrations have their own section, with a wedding planner page and festive menus. Dinner can be served in the cobbled courtyard, a festive buffet can be laid out by the lake, and a parquet floor is available for dancing. Because the hotel stands alone in its valley, a wedding party can stay for the whole weekend without leaving the grounds. The hotel does not publish a maximum number of wedding guests, so couples should confirm it for their plans.
Rooms and capacities
The large meeting and banquet hall measures 125 square meters and has daylight, artificial lighting and a terrace that can be added to the room. Sala Goethe measures 75 square meters and Sala Tischbein 50 square meters. The Bistro, at 30 square meters, serves as a meeting room for small groups. The site gives floor areas but no headcounts, so the layout and numbers are agreed with the hotel for each event.
Catering
Maison Martron is the hotel's fine dining restaurant, with regional cooking influenced by French cuisine. Bistro Buddenbrock offers a simpler menu, and breakfast is served under the name Bärenfrühstück. In good weather, dinner can move to the Hofgarten, the garden courtyard, and the festive menus cover larger celebrations.
History and setting
The Bärenmühle sits between woods and meadows on the edge of Kellerwald-Edersee National Park, with a bathing pond and the Lengelbach stream on its grounds. The surrounding area promotes itself as Grimmheimat, the home region of the Brothers Grimm, and the hotel lists hiking trails and a literature festival among its cultural offers.
Getting there
The hotel lies about 1.5 kilometers outside the village of Ellershausen, reached by a paved road. Frankfurt Airport is about an hour and a half away by car, and Cologne or Erfurt about two to two and a half hours. The hotel advises drivers to enter Lengeltalstraße 2, 35110 Frankenau-Ellershausen in their navigation system, because some routes suggested for the hotel's name lead onto forest tracks that cars cannot use.
