Schloss Elmau: All information about the place where the G7 summit takes place

Created: 05/17/2022, 16:16

By: Elena Royer

The Hotel Schloss Elmau near Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Upper Bavaria.

© IMAGO/Peter Widmann

In 2022, the G7 summit will take place again at Schloss Elmau in Krün.

Everything you need to know about the venue, its history and its special features.

Krün

- When the heads of state and government of the most important industrial nations meet again this summer in the Bavarian town of Krün near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the whole world will be watching Schloss Elmau.

It will once again be the center of attention as a venue.

As early as 2015, politicians were able to hold discussions there undisturbed, shielded from the public.

But what is known about Schloss Elmau?

Here you will find an overview of all important information about the location of the G7 summit.

Where will the G7 summit take place in 2022?

Venue: The five-star Hotel Schloss Elmau

The location:

The luxurious five-star Hotel Schloss Elmau is located about 100 kilometers south of Munich between the Karwendel Mountains and Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen is about 88 kilometers away via the A 95.

From there it is only a few kilometers to the castle, including on a toll road.

If you prefer to travel by public transport, you can also use the train from Munich Central Station.

You can find more current news about the 2022 summit at Merkur.de/G7-Gipfel Elmau

G7 Summit 2022 at Schloss Elmau - A historical overview

The writer, philosopher and theologian Johannes Müller built the property in 1916 and founded a "free space for personal and community life" there.

Müller lectured there on religion and his own worldview, with the result that Schloss Elmau became a popular meeting place for those who shared his views.

Castle Elmau.

© Sven Hoppe/dpa/Archive

Schloss Elmau at the time of National Socialism:

Johannes Müller's criticism of anti-Semitism and the Nazi regime led to his publications and lectures being banned.

In order to prevent the SS from confiscating Elmau Castle, Müller leased the castle to the Wehrmacht in 1942 as a “convalescent home for vacationers from the front”.

After the end of the war in 1945, Johannes Müller was convicted in a denazification process of glorifying Hitler in speech and writing.

The conviction was legally controversial. 

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In 1945 the US Army confiscated Schloss Elmau and used it as a

.

Thereafter, under the administration of the Bavarian government, it served as a convalescent home for tuberculosis patients and Holocaust survivors.

Johannes Müller died on January 4, 1949. In 1951, his children Sieglinde and Bernhard leased Elmau Castle and set up a hotel there.

In 1961 the proceedings against Johannes Müller were dropped and Bernhard and Sieglinde, whom he had appointed as heirs, the owners of Schloss Elmau.

G7 summit 2022: numerous hotel visits by celebrities at Schloss Elmau

Numerous celebrities and public figures have been coming to Elmau Castle since the late 1950s.

For example Ingeborg Bachmann and Marcel Reich-Ranicki from

, the violinist Yehudi Menuhin, the pianist Benjamin Britten, Federal President Johannes Rau and the humorist Vicco von Bülow.

Up to

, readings and festivals take place there every year, which hotel guests can visit at no additional cost.

G7 summit 2022: Schloss Elmau today - five-star luxury hotel near Garmisch-Partenkirchen

In 1997, a grandson of Johannes Müller, Dietmar Müller-Elmau, took over the castle, renovated it and

.

He is said to have lifted the table orders, abolished the morning dance lessons and halved the number of remaining dance events.

The "Cultural Hideaway" has now become a meeting place for humanities scholars from all over the world.

Schloss Elmau: The hideaway in numbers

In 2007

, the 5-star superior hideaway was largely rebuilt after a major fire.

1

concert hall is housed in it.

Great artists regularly perform there.

There are 115

rooms and suites with 20 to 110 square meters in the Hideaway.

5

restaurants, one reserved for families and one with

Michelin stars, offer culinary delights.

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fashion and lifestyle shops, a bookstore and two libraries provide entertainment.

In August 2005, the castle was hit by a

and had to be demolished to a large extent.

In 2007, Dietmar Müller-Elmau opened the new Schloss Elmau as a

and in 2015 the

opened .

- among many other awards -

and in 2022 it was awarded the

first place in the ranking of the

.

The retreat in numbers

The 5-star superior retreat was built in

There are 47

suites and junior suites in the retreat, they have 60 to 200 square meters.

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yoga pavilion as well as an adult spa and a family spa with year-round heated outdoor pool invite you to relax.

You can make yourself comfortable in the library lounge with 2 open

fireplaces

When it became known that Elmau Castle was to be

again this year , government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit declared that Elmau Castle met all the

for a G7 summit location.

The security measures are currently being planned.

The last summit in 2015 at Elmau was the second after Russia was expelled from the G8.

In his announcement, Hebestreit praised the “lovely scenic backdrop”, which provided an attractive framework for the talks in 2015, left a

worldwide and ensured that everything ran smoothly.

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