Golf & Land - Club Kronberg

Course Type: Real Course, 18 holes, Germany, ver. 2.0

Beschreibung

The History of Golf and Country Club Kronberg

Kronberg Golf Club is joined at the hip with the lock Friedrichshof which Empress

Victoria as a dower house in Kronberg was built in 1889 by the court architect Ernst von Ihne.

Empress Frederick, like the widow in memory of her late husband after a short reign,

Emperor Frederick III. Called, had, Kronberg and his famous artist colony in visits to the

nearby imperial residence in Bad Homburg know and appreciate. So they left the palace

grounds, which was very important to her, and now forms a part of the golf course

Kronberger, planted with noble wood and valuable exotic trees. Even today, the

dendrological treasures to the glory and tradition of English gardens, which may not last due

to the fact that Empress Frederick was also the daughter of the famous Queen Victoria

of England.

Therefore early British visitors came to Kronberg and often brought with her golf clubs and

golf balls. Where today are the holes 6 to 10, was played by them proved in 1914 in the

park golf.

After the war ended in 1945 the Americans occupied castle Friedrichshof. With the release

of 1952, lord of the manor Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, on the Hessian line the castle had passed,

with the conversion to a hotel. At the suggestion of the hoteliers Richard Pertram and designed

by golf coach Ernst Kothe was founded in 1953 in the park, a 9-hole golf course created.

After the lord of the manor had thereafter consult with Ernst Werner Reimers and Kothe,

the following year, the creation of a golf club has been decided.

Sun gathered on 6 January 1954 the founding members Wolfgang Prinz von Hessen, Moritz

Freiherr von Bissing, Franz Gomori, Hans Heinrich Hauck, Georg von Opel, Richard Pertram,

Werner Reimers, Peter Skeffington, Erich Vierhub and Gerhard Alois Westrick the ceremonial

foundation of the golf and country club Kronberg in the Hessian court in Frankfurt am Main.

The place was in the spring of 1954 at playable. End of 1955, the Club Casino, which is located

in the castle, are available. Four years later, was built by a foundation of the later president,

Dr. Walter Kesselheim, the bridge, the second day between the Green and the 3rd Tee crossing

the street in the park. Post-enlargement on an 18-hole course in 1963 on 24 May 1964 the 18

holes with the "Award of Kronberg" officially opened.

By the then growing number of members (now about 1121) were carried out over the years,

many renovations and expansions of the golf course. For all structural changes Ernst Kothe

has consistently guarantee the protection and the preservation of the magnificent tree

population had in mind and created one of the most beautiful golf courses in Germany.

Country

Germany

Course type

Real Course

Holes

18

Version

2.0

Link

www.gc‑kronberg.de

Included in set 

Set 1