Hospitality since 1770

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Welcome to Hotel Kühl, your retreat in Neumünster! Your well-being is our top priority. We invite you to immerse yourself in a world of comfort and warmth, where you will be spoilt anew every day.

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Best service since 1770

Best service
since 1770

Hotel Kühl in Neumünster has been a family business for eight generations. Today, Sandra and Kathrin Kühl run the traditional hotel. Together they combine tradition and modernity to carry their version of Hotel Kühl into the future. Their entire focus is on the well-being of their guests, who are pampered with comfort and warmth every day.

Our team

A strong team is more than the sum of its parts. This is a truth that has remained constant throughout the centuries. Every member of our team contributes with their expertise, warmth and hospitality to make our guests feel at home. We are proud to have such a great team.

Kathrin & Sandra Kühl

255 years on the former aristocratic farm in Gadeland

Family and farm history
from 1770 - 2025

Three jurisdictions in Gadeland

Gadeland existed around the middle of the 18. century, Gadeland consisted of nine Hufenstellen in addition to several smaller Katenstellen. Two of these belonged to the Bordeshoim office and three each to the Neumünster office and the Preetz monastery. The ninth (and later Kühl'sche) hoof was the property of the nobility. There were therefore three jurisdictions in Gadeland: The royal jurisdiction, exercised by the Neumünster office, the monastic jurisdiction, exercised by the Preetz monastery, and the jurisdiction of the noble Hufe. It enjoyed special privileges, including the right to hunt freely on the entire field, the tenants were allowed to keep a pub and had brewing and spirits rights. In the second half of the 18th century, there was a certain amount of movement in the surviving land ownership of the land, in the course of which the Gadelander aristocratic Hufe was offered for sale in 1764 and bought at auction by the Neumünster office on behalf of the king. Almost all the associated freedoms were abolished. The exemption from certain carriage services and the right to serve beer remained.

MARX COOL (1744 -1797)

Tenant from 1770 to 1797

Marx kühl took over the neglected farm as a temporary tenant in 1770. He was so successful during the 27-year lease that he bought the farm for his son Hinrich for 830 Reichsthaler in the spring of 1797. Sales of this kind were frequent at this time, namely in the course of the royal government's major agricultural reform which had been underway since 1786. All the leased land that had become unprofitable for the royal administration gradually came into private peasant ownership in this way.

A quarter of the aristocratic hooves had been cut off before the sale to Marx Kühl.

HINRICH KÜHL (1764 - 1817)

Farm owner from 1797 to 1817

For the Danish kingdom and the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, the twenties of his reign were a time of continuing political and military entanglements. The Russian-Scandinavian neutrality alliance was followed by English attacks on Danish trade at sea and on the city of Copenhagen, then the alliance with France demanded by Napoleon, the collapse of Prussia, the dissolution of the German Empire and finally the wars of liberation, the clashes of which in the final phase also spread throughout Schleswig-Holstein. Despite all this turmoil, Hinrich Kühl was able to leave his heir a well-funded farm.

PAUL KÜHL (1786 - 1879)

Farm owner from 1848 to 1879

The period of Hans Hinrich Kühl's ownership of the farm saw the eventful and decisive events that led to Schleswig-Holstein's annexation to the German Reich. In December 1853 Hans Hinrich Kühl acquired a further 5 3/4 tonnes of land for the farm (4 1/2 1m Stubbenhorst and 1 1/4 in Babenborn) and in June 1861 a further small piece of land of 37 square rods was added to the farm from the common land. According to the licence of 12 November 1879, Hans Hinrioh Kuhl was already an old man at this time. He died at the age of 64 on 29 January 1883, just four years after his elderly father.

PAUL HINRICH KÜHL (1848 - 1931)

Farm owner 1879 to 1914

At the time Paul Hinrich took over the farm, the old building, built in 1688, still housed a flat, parlour and agricultural rooms, which had long since ceased to meet the diverse requirements of modern agriculture and living culture. So in 1887/88, exactly 200 years after the old house was built, the new residential and guest house was built directly on Segeberger Straße. It was completed in November 1888.

In 1900, a hall and passageway were built on the east side of the new house and in 1914 the stables in the south section were considerably enlarged.

HANS HINRICH KÜHL (1879 - 1942)

Farm owner 1914 to 1942

The inn, still the only one in the village, enjoyed a constantly growing popularity thanks to its favourable location and the addition of a spacious hall. The family was the landlord, farmer and innkeeper at the same time.

HANS HEINRICH OTTO KÜHL (1912-1980)

Farm owner 1942 - 1979

The economic and technical upswing that began after the currency reform also had a decisive impact on the Kühl' scher Hof and the restaurant business in the following years, on the one hand due to the rapid motorisation of travel and its return to the country road, and on the other hand due to the urgently needed and very costly modernisation measures in agriculture. It was no longer possible to fulfil both tasks. As a result, Heinrich decided in 1955 to give up farming altogether and to expand the hotel and catering business to a large extent. In 1956, the entire living and dead agricultural inventory was auctioned off and the land was leased or partially sold. The main house of the old aristocratic tenant farm, built in 1688, was demolished, and between 1957 and 1960 the residential and guest house, built in 1888, was considerably extended after the stables at the rear were demolished. In 1969, he built a guest house together with his son Hans Walter Kühl.

HANS WALTER KÜHL (BORN 1942)

Hotel owner 1969 - 2018

Hans Walter had the right instinct and successfully led the hotel into the new century. It was modernised and renovated. A bowling alley was built, rooms in the main building, for example, were combined and each room was given its own bathroom, the ballroom was panelled and much more. These investments paid off. The Hotel Kühl has not only made a good name for itself in Neumünster.

SANDRA KÜHL (BORN 1971) & KATHRIN KÜHL (BORN 1975)

A family business through and through, since 2012 the daughters Kathrin and Sandra Kühl have joined the traditional hotel and have actively supported their father. They have renovated all the rooms with their own personal touch. They always made sure that the tradition was not lost. Hans Walter Kühl retired completely from the company in 2018. Now the two sisters are leading the traditional hotel into the new age, it is being digitalised. However, they both agree that service and hospitality will always remain the same.

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