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Bike shelter for e-bikes

The time has finally come. The new shelter is professionally made. The e-bikes can be chained up and have maximum protection against theft. Behind the hotel, in a sheltered location and additionally separated…

Thank you!

The Green Elster Hotel was built in the height of the pandemic. As a special thanks for this feat, all the helpers and friends involved in the project were invited and appreciated. In…

Air Berlin

Hallway ground floor Berlin-based Air Berlin was a successful airline for many years. It was the second largest airline in Germany. Unfortunately, insolvency proceedings were then opened in August 2017. My personal regret…

Lettuce cultivation

A typical picture of garlic country shows professional lettuce cultivation in 2020. Mr. Axmann was standing on the farm road near Alte Reuthstraße, with Kraftshof in the background and Braunsbacher Weg in front.

Lapwings

In the picture you can see the fortified church of St. George of Kraftshof. Photographer Gerd Axmann took the photo from the service road, after crossing under Erlanger Straße in February 2021. Very…

Corn poppy

Mr. Gerd Axmann photographed the corn poppy in the cornfield in June 2019. It is probably rather rare in the meantime to experience such a large beautiful spread of corn poppies. The picture…

Poppenreuth

Room 1 information Years ago I met Friederike and Michael Staedtler through the Tennis Friends Grün Weiß Fürth. Since my tennis friends live in Poppenreuth, they have fallen in love with the place.…

City map 1952

Information about the city map of Fürth in the corridor 1.OG The print shown is an excerpt from a teaching aid of the Poppenreuth elementary school. The former principal, Mr. Gerhard Fuchs, saved…

Pumpkin

Room 8 information In earlier times in the garlic country was also grown a lot of pumpkin. In 2011, the well-known photographer Gerd Axmann discovered the intermediate pumpkin storage in an old tobacco…

Hans Schiller 1986

Room 3 information The watercolor was painted by Hans Schiller in 1986. Hans Schiller was the city garden director of Fürth and painter of many famous works. Helmut Weißig photographed it from the…

The Old Canal

Room 2 information In Knoblauchsland, the Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal (Ludwig Canal) is simply called “The Old Canal”. Where nowadays the Poppenreuther bridge crosses the Frankenschnellweg (A73), there used to be the Poppenreuther trading port.…

St.George Church

Information about room 6 + corridor OG The Evangelical Lutheran Parish of St. George – Kraftshof is located in the middle of Knoblauchsland. Approximately 2,350 Protestant Christians live here in the villages of…

Photos of the garlic country wanted!

Dear Fürth,Dear citizens of Knoblauchsland, with the newly built “HOTEL GRÜNE ELSTER” we implemented a particularly ambitious concept. Among many other important things, such as sound insulation and individual room ventilation, we will…

Booking.com

Why are we not visible on Booking.com?We give you an interesting look behind the scenes. The hotel was planned before the pandemic and now in operation during the pandemic. In order to increase…

SpVgg Greuther Fürth e.V.

When we planned the Hotel Grüne Elster, then built it and put it into operation, we didn’t even think about future hotel guests from the soccer scene. Friends said, “You should court the…

Electric charging station put into operation

The first charging station at the Hotel Grüne Elster for e-cars is in operation. It is a double charging station for 2 e-cars. Due to the good accessibility to the hotel, also non-hotel…

Hotel opening on May 16, 2021

Dear interested parties, as we have built a small but fine hotel, we expect a good occupancy very quickly.Have you only ever been able to book the overpriced hotels during trade fairs in…