In mid-1845, Johann Daniel Düringer (1790-1849) opened a luxury hotel named after him on Wilhelmstrasse with 70 elegant rooms and salons. In 1857, the new owners renamed it "Hotel Victoria" and modernized the rooms and bathing facilities from the ground up.

A particular advantage of the location was the fact that the baths were supplied by the hotel's own thermal spring and the direct connection to the Kochbrunnen fountain, which led to the Hotel Adler. The roller skating rink set up in 1877 further increased the attraction; it was the second in the German Empire.

At the beginning of the 1880s, further extensive renovation work was carried out and a new wing was added to the hotel complex; the façade was also adapted to the taste of the time and extensively redesigned. However, the owners had overstretched themselves financially with this undertaking and went bankrupt in 1883.

Reopened in 1887, the Hotel Viktoria offered over 120 luxury rooms, appropriate bathing facilities, comfortable function rooms and a dining room for 500 people. The Hotel Viktoria's most famous guest was the Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky.

The Hotel Viktoria was completely destroyed in the heavy bombing raid on February 2 and 3, 1945.