Heritage hotels in Cologne

Bensberg, Cologne From $250

Althoff Grandhotel Schloss Bensberg

Early eighteenth-century Baroque hunting lodge built for Prince-Elector Jan Wellem, featuring preserved Medici plasterwork and grand stone fireplaces.

Gereonsviertel, Cologne $$

The Qvest

The 1897 municipal archive building survived wartime bombings with its Gothic vaults intact.

Cacilien-Viertel, Cologne $$

Wasserturm Hotel Cologne, Curio Collection by Hilton

A nineteenth-century brick water tower, once Europe's tallest, preserved as an urban monument.

Gereonsviertel, Cologne From $150

25hours Hotel Köln The Circle

The preserved 1966 administrative rotunda of the Gerling Insurance Group, anchoring the historic Gerling Quartier.

Hand, Cologne $$$

Diepeschrather Mühle

A restored seventeenth-century watermill estate and former forest cafe frequented by Konrad Adenauer.

Altstadt-Nord, Cologne From $350

Excelsior Hotel Ernst

Grand nineteenth-century hotel preserving historic 1910 cellar architecture opposite Cologne Cathedral.