Atholl Palace Hotel

Das Atholl Palace Hotel

The Atholl Palace Hotel in Pitlochry is a palace hotel in the Scottish Highlands. Edit HistoryQual

The development of the Pitlochry area was carried out by the construction of the railroad in 1863. After the founding of the Athole Hydropathic Society in 1873, 1874 - 78 the palatial hotel building was built in a dominant position. The architect was Andrew Heiton. The company was initially designed as a water treatment facility. However, the orientation towards longer spa stays and hydrotherapy did not prove to be successful. The company was in trouble, the entrepreneur William Macdonald took over the house 1886 to a quarter of the original construction costs and led the hotel until 1909 successfully as Tourismushotel. MacDonald, however, ruined itself ultimately by a daring financial speculation with French values.

In the next decades, a quiet development occurred, interrupted by the two world wars, in which the hotel served as an alternative location for school-dwelling schools. In 1960 the Nobelhotel played a special role in the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in Pitlochry. The increasingly problematic situation of the old palace hotels was however also at the Atholl Palace Hotel, the exclusive character of the house could not always be held, instead of the individual travelers from the upper class came now also group travelers as visitors. It came 1971, 1973, 1976, 1996, lastly 2001 to owner changes and modernization attempts with the application of a helicopterland place. Still, the widely visible house is still a landmark in the area and also served as a meeting place for the Scottish regional government. In the basement is a small tourism museum.

The building has been listed as a category B building since 1971. Weblinks Edit sourcetext

56.701805555556-3.7195833333333Koordinaten: 56° 42′ 6,5″ N, 3° 43′ 10,5″ W

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