Berggasthaus Aescher-Wildkirchli

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Berggasthaus Äscher

The Berggasthaus Aescher-Wildkirchli (also: Berggasthaus Äscher ) is an inn in the Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden , Schwende district . It was built in one of the Wildkirchli caves below the Ebenalp ( 1640  m above sea level ) along the path to Äscher. The mountain inn has existed since 1846, making it one of the oldest mountain inns in Switzerland. The current building was built in 1860 instead of a rock shelter for hermit monks. It is a listed building. It belongs to the Wildkirchlistiftung.

location

You can reach the mountain inn with the Wasserauen – Ebenalp cable car from Wasserauen . It can be reached in a 15-minute walk from Ebenalp via a hiking trail that leads through several caves.

In the immediate vicinity is the Wildkirchli Museum, where prehistoric finds from the caves are exhibited. A small cave chapel has been set up in the neighboring cave. The mountain inn is only open in summer, mostly from the beginning of May to the end of October.

history

Guests have been entertained in the Wildkirchli caves for hundreds of years. The hosts were first monks living as hermits, then the local farmers. In the 2010s, the mountain inn became a world-famous travel destination. National Geographic named it the “most beautiful place in the world” in 2015. A photo of the mountain inn is on the cover of the book Destinations of a Lifetime , published in the same year . The approximately 200,000 visitors a year increasingly overloaded the building and infrastructure. In the past, overnight stays were offered. But the rush was too big, so that the hostel had to be closed in spring 2017.

Trivia

Appenzeller Alpenbitter with the depiction of the ash

The Berggasthaus Aescher and the Seealpsee below have been shown in a drawing on the label of the Appenzeller Alpenbitter since 1960 .

Web links

Commons : Aescher  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Designation of the field name according to swissNAMES3D, cf. [1] . The field name was referred to as " Aescher " on the Siegfried map and as " Äscher " on the national map since the first edition .
  2. ↑ In the beginning there were the hermits. In: naturfreunde.ch. Retrieved August 23, 2018 .
  3. ↑ After the landlords gave notice of frustration - with this advertisement the Aescher is looking for new tenants. In: blick.ch. August 25, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
  4. ↑ The era comes to an end - landlords leave the Äscher mountain inn . In: Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) . August 20, 2018 ( srf.ch [accessed August 22, 2018]).
  5. ↑ How a Swiss mountain pub became the most beautiful place in the world . In: watson.ch . August 14, 2015 ( watson.ch [accessed on August 22, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Destinations of a Lifetime. 2015, accessed on August 22, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Rossella Blattmann, Karin Erni: Victims of their own success: Tenant family Knechtle gives up the "Aescher" after 31 years . In: St. Galler Tagblatt . ( tagblatt.ch [accessed on August 22, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Alpstein: Potatoes in the Mass Storage Article by Simon Roth on tagblatt.ch from April 28, 2017

Coordinates: 47 ° 17 '0.2 "  N , 9 ° 24' 51.7"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred forty-nine thousand four hundred and fifty-eight  /  238825