LINDENBERG’s third guest community, featuring 100 rooms, opens in Frankfurt-Ostend.
Lindleystrasse 17, Frankfurt am Main. A large building with a cast iron-coated glass façade stretches skywards; the shop window into a new world: wood sorrel ready for the picking in the herb room, records spinning in the Parlour, schnapps and celery carbonara plated up at the restaurant, a subversive acoustic concert being performed in the Panopticon, fruit trees for reading under, oven-fresh sourdough at the bakery, a dirty Martini at the bar on the fifth floor, bird watching on the rooftop terrace. All this can be enjoyed from now on – in the comfort of leisurewear and slippers – at LINDLEY LINDENBERG.
LINDLEY LINDENBERG is the third LINDENBERG Hospitality GmbH hotel in Frankfurt am Main, run by Denise Omurca, Christian Velthuizen and Nils Jansen. Like the concepts preceding it, it is based upon the experience of a guest community, in which long-term tenants and overnight guests not only occupy suites, but also a large number of shared living spaces. “We are neither a classic hotel nor a flat share community – and yet, we’re both at the same time” (Denise Omurca). Overnight guests are just as welcome as those looking for a second home for days, weeks, months or even years – a place to connect to.
LINDLEY’s 100 guest rooms are kept to the minimum size, because life happens ‘out there’. Since 2012, LINDENBERG has seen itself as a pioneer of co-living, for which access plays a greater role than ownership. Depending on their wishes and plans, guests are invited to move between areas with a particular purpose, and dive into those communities. In this way, LINDENBERG spaces reflect the social need for communal living and working. A new quality of life, accompanied by a sense of togetherness – balanced with the possibility of individuality, and always focused on sustainability in both living and business.
THE BUI LDING
The rooms: LINDLEY’s guests’ own four walls are intended for sleeping, showering and retreating. Everything else is made accessible across the shared living spaces. The quality of a stay in LINDLEY’s rooms is not determined by size, but rather by the finesse of the furnishings, considered design and high-quality materials. High ceilings, a thoughtful colour concept and generous windows serve to create a pleasant sense of space.
When guests wish to venture beyond their own four walls, a large number of shared living spaces and common areas await, spread over seven floors.
The small, wild garden: Plants that celebrate the changing seasons, hilly landscapes, wooden terraces and a water basin form an ‘enchanted’ garden around the house. Quince, apple and pear trees offer shady spots to linger under.
The LEUCHTENDROTER restaurant on the ground floor is the little wicked sister of the restaurant SEVEN SWANS, brought to life and managed by Chris Weinbeck, Denise Omurca and Michelin star chef Ricky Saward. Morning, noon and night, the restaurant serves hearty, accessible vegetarian pleasures for the people, made exclusively from regional projects. The wine bar is stocked with a tightly curated selection of wines and sparkling wines.
Bakery: Just next to the restaurant, you’ll find oven-fresh sourdough bread, sandwiches, croissants and homemade cakes, as well as fair trade coffee roasted by local partners.
Bar Marmion: In the bar on the 5th floor, bar culture classics are produced and served in their original versions, as well as with new twists. A fine selection of wines, spirits and cocktails are poured in a sophisticated ambiance. The bar is run by Torsten Martini and Malwin Hillier.
Unlike the restaurant, bakery and bar, the other community spaces are reserved exclusively for hotel guests, and are only accessible to external guests on particular occasions. Community Kitchens on the 4th and 6th floors: These fully-equipped communal kitchen form the foundation of togetherness and serve as the heart of LINDLEY. Self-made products, homegrown vegetables and fruit and produce from LINDENBERG’s BRAUMANNSWIESEN permaculture plot in the Taunus line the refrigerators and shelves.
The Parlour, with a small but carefully-selected record collection and a library for reading and listening to music, The Panopticon as a conference, event, work, cinema and concert room with its Rube Goldberg installation and a varied cultural programme, The Coworking space as a workstation for hire or the conference room, The Indoor Farm, operated by BRAUMANNSWIESEN for that home-cooked sauce’s finishing flourish, The Tree for finding peace, The Gym STUDIO BLITZ, run by Michael Schmelzer, in which workout classes supplement individual training sessions, and last but not least, The Rooftop Terrace, a place to relax with a view over the Main basin and Frankfurt, bring the community to life.
In all their colourful diversity, the shared living spaces are the counterpart to individuals’ own living rooms, kitchens, dining rooms, hobby rooms and offices. These communal spaces form the core of the project, and are for the most part vertically stacked on the building’s southern façade. They bring into being the ‘Wunderkiste’ (Pandora’s Box), a glass shop window, a diorama of the LINDENBERG world, and a community that has made togetherness its goal.
