87 rooms in August Endell's 1913 Art Nouveau building on Steinplatz — Marriott's first German Autograph Collection property since the 2013 reopening, with the Heinrich Böll-Brigitte Bardot-Romy Schneider lineage and the most considered post-war Charlottenburg restoration.
"August Endell's 1913 Art Nouveau gem — Pavarotti's, Bardot's, Heinrich Böll's Berlin home, restored in 2013 and given to Charlottenburg as the city's quietest five-star. The basement Volle Pulle bar still feels like a 1950s artists' meeting room."
The building at Steinplatz 4 was designed in 1913 by August Endell — the Munich-born architect best known for the Hackesche Höfe courtyard complex in Mitte and the most decorated German practitioner of Art Nouveau before the First World War. The Moorish arched windows on the upper storeys, the moss-and-forest stucco motifs in the ground-floor entry, and the expressive ceiling work in the staff-entrance hall all survive intact from the original 1913 commission. Max Zellermayer opened the building as a luxury hotel the same year. The hotel closed during the Second World War and reopened in 1947 under the Zellermayer family heirs; it became one of West Berlin's principal artists' and intellectuals' addresses through the 1950s and 1960s, with Heinrich Böll, Günter Grass, Brigitte Bardot, Luciano Pavarotti, and Romy Schneider all in the guest book. The basement bar — Volle Pulle — was the unofficial meeting room for the West Berlin literary establishment.
The hotel was given a comprehensive 2012 refurbishment by Bauer-Magic Bauten and reopened in winter 2013 as Marriott's first Autograph Collection property in Germany — the brand's signal that a restored 20th-century building of architectural distinction could anchor a luxury portfolio without surrendering to chain-hotel uniformity. The 87 rooms (including three signature suites) are arranged across six floors. Standard categories run a generous 28–34 square metres with parquet floors, free-standing oak desks, deep-soak bathtubs, marble-and-tile bathrooms, and original Endell-era window proportions kept where the building permits. The Suites — including the Steinplatz Suite with a private terrace facing the square — are the milestone-occasion booking. The 2024 soft-furnishings refresh is the hotel's most recent investment.
Restaurant am Steinplatz is the all-day venue — a contemporary German menu by chef Marcus Zimmer with a strong locally brewed-craft-beer programme and a vegetable-forward dinner register. The Bar am Steinplatz is the evening cocktail room with the city's most decorated negroni programme. Volle Pulle in the basement remains the property's literary-historic anchor: a small low-lit room kept as close to its 1950s configuration as licensing permits, used for late-evening cocktails and as a private-event space. The top-floor spa runs three treatment rooms and a small fitness suite — there is no pool, which is the property's only structural limitation.
Position is the second proposition. Steinplatz sits at the western edge of Charlottenburg, two minutes from Ernst-Reuter-Platz U-Bahn, four from the Technical University, six from Savignyplatz, and ten from Kurfürstendamm. The Tiergarten is fifteen minutes east; the Berlinale Palast at Potsdamer Platz is fifteen minutes by tram. The hotel's competitive position is occupied by no other Berlin five-star: a literary-historic Art Nouveau boutique with the strongest Charlottenburg café-and-gallery concierge book in the city, and a service register tuned to writers, academics, and editorial guests. For Berlin anniversaries and honeymoons that prefer the considered alternative to the Mitte spotlight, this is the answer.
A Berlin anniversary at Hotel am Steinplatz is the literary-historical version. The Steinplatz Suite with the square-facing terrace is the milestone booking; Restaurant am Steinplatz at dinner is one of the city's most-decorated mid-tier kitchens; Volle Pulle for the after-dinner Negroni in the room where Heinrich Böll drank. Couples who have been to Adlon five times find this hotel without prompting.
For a Berlin honeymoon tuned to galleries, Charlottenburg cafés, the Berliner Philharmonie ten minutes east, and the Schloss Charlottenburg twenty minutes west, the Steinplatz is the right answer — a quieter, more architectural alternative to the Mitte set. The Junior Suite with the Endell-era window proportions is the value honeymoon booking.
For a solo Berlin weekend tuned to writing, museums, and the quieter west-Berlin café scene, Hotel am Steinplatz is the only five-star with the boutique service register and the staff fluency to handle a single-occupancy booking with the right balance of attention and privacy. The smaller Boutique categories at the rear of the building are calmest; the basement bar runs late.
Steinplatz 4
10623 Berlin
Germany
Ernst-Reuter-Platz U-Bahn 2 minutes; Savignyplatz S-Bahn 6 minutes; Kurfürstendamm 10 minutes on foot; Berlinale Palast 15 minutes by tram.
87 rooms (incl. 3 suites)
Boutique Doubles from €260/night
Deluxe Doubles from €340/night
Junior Suites from €590/night
Steinplatz Suite from €1,400/night
Check-in: 3:00 PM
Check-out: 12:00 PM
Building 1913 by August Endell; Marriott Autograph since winter 2013
Restaurant am Steinplatz
Bar am Steinplatz
Volle Pulle basement bar
Top-floor spa & fitness
Marriott Bonvoy
Marriott Autograph Collection
Forbes Recommended
From €260/night. The Steinplatz Suite and the square-facing categories book three months ahead for spring weekends; six months for Berlinale (mid-February) and Berlin Art Week (mid-September).
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