The Lammers family
Hannes and Theresa with Tom, Tilda, Jakob and Lotte: we run Privathotel Riesenbeck with heart, hands-on work and a few crazy ideas.
“If you can’t do anything else, you become an innkeeper …”
“… and if you can’t do anything at all, you become a farmer. So today I’m simply both.” That’s how Hannes likes to explain, with a smile, how he became a hotelier – a twist on an old German saying. He comes from the Wiege family of hoteliers: his father Reinhard Wiege was a hotelier for many years, his mother Antonia Wiege is a pâtissière with her own cake bakery.
With the wedding in 2004, the Lammers family came along – a family rooted in farming. Since then Hannes has been working right in between: the hotel on one side, farming, woodland and leasing in the family business Lammers Flächen & Quartiere on the other.
Hannes is a trained hotel specialist, has worked behind the bar, is a certified adviser for German wine and cooked in his parents’ hotel for many years. Before that he was self-employed in the media sector for a long time – focusing on digitalisation and print media.
Farm, hotel and family
The farm is our roots, the hotel our passion. We still farm a few fields and patches of woodland. Our children are an important part of our lives, but not of everyday hotel life – at the hotel we are hosts through and through, at home simply mum and dad.
And when we have time off, we head off in the motorhome – with four children, our ticket to freedom.
Quick questions
What makes you different from a hotel chain?
There’s no one-size-fits-all here: an honesty bar instead of a minibar, a living room instead of a lobby – and genuine hospitality.
How did you come up with the idea?
The house has been around for more than 150 years. When we took it over, we wanted to preserve the tradition and create something new at the same time.
Do you have animals?
Two cats look after the farm – they’re not allowed in the hotel.
