Hotel Royal was a hotel in Skive city at Østergade 5. Originally known as gæstgiveriet, there was a hotel-like business on the site from the early 1800s until 1967.
Inn and Gluds Hotel
The tentative beginnings of a hotel on the site were made by the merchant Jens Grønning who, in connection with his grocery store, ran a kind of inn and restaurant on the site. After the death of Grønning and Grønning’s widow, the farm was still used as an inn by various tenants.
In 1873, the inn was bought by Holger Glud who opened Gluds Hotel in the building. Glud sold the hotel in 1885 to N.H. Jørgensen and Frederik Kielgast. Shortly after, the hotel was sold to G. Lindtner who owned it until 1892 when it was sold to N.P. Jacobsen.
Hotel Royal
Jacobsen renamed the hotel to Hotel Royal. Jacobsen and later his widow expanded the hotel greatly and built up a fine business.
In 1918, the widow Jacobsen decided to transform the hotel into a limited company. They wanted to turn Hotel Royal into a temperance hotel, under the management of Skive Afholdsforening and Carl Hansen. Major improvements with central heating and water. Very expensive and without liquor revenue it didn’t work out
In 1931, a new limited company, this time with a liquor license, and with a tenant where the previous limited company had had an employed manager. With liquor sales, the hotel was doing well, and the leaseholder C.V. Christensen was interested in buying the hotel to run it himself.
After long negotiations, Christensen bought the hotel in 1939. New facade and a lot of other modernizations inside and out. The new facade and large parts of the hotel were designed by Skive architect Toft-Hansen.
After C.V. Christensen no longer wanted to run the hotel, his daughter Gurli and son-in-law Knud Willemoes Jørgensen took over in 1954.
Willemoes sold the hotel in 1967 to Diskontobanken, which demolished the building in 1969 to expand the bank.
Sources
- Bjerregård, Niels P., All for the guests – 20 years at “Hotel Royal, Skive 1950
- Skive Folkeblad 4/7-1967 p.4, 9/8-1969 p.5