Café Royal

Café Royal

Ostseebad Binz
Schillerstraße 2

Former house names: Hotel and Café Royal

Today: Haus Möwe

Year of construction: 1905

History/Owners until 1945: The Café Royal was once the most elegant café in the area, with its own pastry shop and guest rooms. In 1909, the owner Franz Subklew described his establishment as follows: Café Royal. The most elegant café on the square, with its own pastry shop, located directly on the landing stage and beach, 35 comfortable, modernly furnished rooms with balconies at reasonable prices for days and weeks. Electric light. Telephone 40, Mr. Franz Subklew (from the travel guide “Binz auf Rügen” from 1909). Later, in the mid-1920s, it was referred to as a hotel and café. The new owner, Mrs. S. Stuttrich, offered 36 rooms in 1925. The Grieben travel guide volume 65 Rügen from 1933 reported, among other things, that there was also a dentist in the building: B. Kotzan, Café Royal, Wilhelmstr. It is not known whether the owners changed again in the following years.

GDR era: In GDR times, the Haus Möwe was, among other things, a residential building and café.

It is assumed that the name change took place during this time and that the tower dome also disappeared.

After 1990: In 1992, an advertisement in the room catalog of the Binz and Surrounding Area Tourism Association still said: Café Möwe, Binz, Schillerstraße 2, coffee, coffee specialties, cakes. Sundae cups, warm dishes in a sophisticated atmosphere.

Later, the building was extensively renovated. The house Möwe got its distinctive tower dome back. Holiday apartments and flats as well as gastronomic facilities were created on the ground floor.

Present use: holiday apartments and flats, gastronomic facilities

Photos: Binzer Bucht Tourismus collection, Lutz Grünke, Binzer Bucht Tourismus/Christian Thiele

Text: Binzer Bucht Tourismus