A Look Back: American Arms Hotel

 This is the first of five essays over past structures in the Wiesbaden area, which were familiar to Army or Air Force people stationed here in the 1960s to the 1980s.

So today, the topic is the old American Arms Hotel, which sat on Frankfurter Strasse.  

The city took possession of it after the Army turned it over, and spent a fair amount of time working on a re-use plan.  The end-result?  They took the hotel site and an additional site nearby (parking garage over by Rheinstrasse), and packaged them for a development company.  

Everything was torn down, and a new condo situation is being put up (mix of high-end and reasonable priced units for student-rentals).

The image to the right? This is where you would have entered the hotel compound from the main street.

Die Hutte (the restaurant) down the street?  Still there and operating.

City Bowling across the street (picture to the right)?  Still there, and operating.  It's probably the same menu offerings from 30 years ago.

So if you were driving down the street....I doubt that you'd even notice anything much different except the whole hotel is gone.