It had a total of six windows facing the street. The door was located between the second and third windows and led up a few steps to the mezzanine floor. Incidentally, this view was preserved until the demolition of this part of the building at the end of 1996.

At that time, today's Bahnstraße was not yet completely built on. The situation plan of Wittenberge, published in 1863 by W. Platt, only documents the planned development on this side of the street between today's Auguststraße and Stern. Only three of the houses marked were already solid stone buildings, one of them at the corner of Zimmerstraße, the later hotel building. Next to the residential building was a garden in which a 35-metre-long bowling alley had already been built in 1874 by the subsequent owner Theodor Köcheln. Collector Köcheln also had an upper floor added to the residential house.

The addition of a storey to the building and the construction of the bowling alley lead to the assumption that there was already an inn on the property at that time.

Then in 1878, Hermann Naumann, who still lived in Lenzen / Elbe at the time, acquired this property. For the first time the name "Hotel Germania" is mentioned in the records. The favourable location of the hotel on the main road must have allowed favourable business, so that in 1903 Naumann had an extension built for a dining room and a hotel kitchen on the previous garden site. At the same time, hotel rooms were furnished on an upper floor. But hotelier Naumann died in the same year. On 05 August 1905, the hotelier Otto Pflughaupt registered his business as the new owner of the "Hotel Germania" with the local city administration. In the following years, a veranda was added to the courtyard and a "summer garden" was laid out on the street front facing Bahnstraße (as well as in front of the adjacent "Café Central" - later "Café Selbmann" -).

Even at that time, the "Hotel Germania" was a prestigious gastronomic establishment that also accommodated notable guests. For example, on 13 February 1917, when General von Hindenburg, who later became President of the German Reich, had to involuntarily interrupt his train journey in Wittenberge for "railway reasons", he and his daughter, who was travelling with him, took up quarters for four hours in this noble Wittenberg hostel. From 1930, the hotelier Walter Pflughaupt is named as the hotel owner.

At the beginning of the 1960s, when the daughter of Walter Pflughaupt, Ilse, had become the hotel owner, the musician Bernhard Zemmrich, later Ilse Pflughaupt's husband, set up the "Onkel-Bernhard-Bar" in the side wing on Zimmerstraße. Soon, alterations were also made to enlarge the guest room and expand the hotel kitchen.

At the beginning of the 1970s, the hotel owner was induced to take up a state shareholding for her hotel business, so that the "Hotel Germania KG" now belonged to the so-called semi-public enterprises of our town, which was taken over in management by the state trade organisation (HO) a few years later.

By resolution of the Wittenberge town council, the hotel was given the name "Stadt Wittenberge" on 21 November 1985. But this name did not find any resonance in the linguistic usage of the local citizens and after the political change Ilse and Bernhard Zemmrich were the owners of their hotel again from 01 May 1991, which also got back the old name "Hotel Germania".

Unfortunately, the existence of this private enterprise did not last long. Already at the beginning of 1992, the Dresdner Bank acquired the property.

From 2nd December 1993, this bank relocated its business premises to rooms in the former hotel. At the end of 1996, the oldest part of the building complex on the corner of Zimmerstraße was finally demolished. A new building for the branch of the Dresdner Bank was completed. Since then, the citizens of Wittenberg have been impatiently waiting to see what would finally happen to the vacant part of the building.

In 2000, the Hotel "Germania" reopened for its guests.

In August 2014, the Schneider family decided to take over the Hotel & Restaurant "Germania" and partially renovate it. The restaurant now shone in new splendour and the opening in December 2014 was a complete success.

In spring 2022, a new counter was installed in the restaurant thanks to funding from the ILB through the Invest Gast programme. Now, the last inventory in the building, which was more than 8 years old, was replaced. The new counter and the new reception now fully meet the modern requirements to implement new energetic, optical and comfortable standards.