Helmhaus (Hotel)
The Helmhaus Hotel is a 4-star hotel in Zurich on the Schifflände on the right side of the Limmat in the old town , one of the most traditional locations in the history of Zurich accommodation. As of 2015, it will be the smallest and most central 4-star hotel in the city.
history
origin
The hotel takes its name from the nearby Helmhaus , which was used as a court in the Middle Ages.
The building was first mentioned as an accommodation facility in 1356 under the name Hie zum Rosslyn (Here to the Rössli) in the history books. The house was a fiefdom of the Fraumünster Abbey . The owner at the time was probably in the service of the abbot of Einsiedeln Monastery in Zurich.
15th and 16th centuries
One of the many Rössli innkeepers was Junker Oswald Reinhart (also: Osswald Reinhart) from Kempten (Allgäu) . In 1468 Reinhart received the citizenship of the city of Zurich and in 1487 took over the farm Zum Rössli with his wife Elisabetha Wunzürn (also: Elssbetha Wynzürnin) . Reinhart's daughter Anna , who spent part of her childhood in the Rössli , lived with the reformer and folk priest Ulrich Zwingli from 1522 and married him on April 2, 1524 in the Grossmünster . Anna Reinhart was the first pastor's wife in Switzerland and built up the Zurich poor system. A brass plaque on the facade of the hotel still reminds of them today.
During the Zurich iconoclasm in 1524, the canon of the Grossmünster Rudolf Koch, on Zwingli's initiative, arranged for the altarpieces by the painter Hans Leu the Elder to be placed in the paneling of the Rössli in order to save them from impending destruction. At the beginning of the 20th century, the pictures were rediscovered by chance during renovations and can now be viewed in the Swiss National Museum .
Modern times
From 1833 the house was an annex to the Hôtel du Lac on the Limmat, which now houses an Italian restaurant. In 1935, today's Hotel Helmhaus was converted into a business and apartment building, with Café Sultan on the ground floor. In 1961 another conversion to the Hotel Garni Mondial took place.
In 1970 the hotel was bought by the Swiss Mengis and Weibel family, who named it Helmhaus . It continues the more than 650-year-old tradition of Zurich accommodation. Extensive renovation work since then has included the expansion of the top floor into an additional fifth floor with five designer rooms and the inlay of parquet in all rooms. The last major renovation took place between 2008 and 2012. Further work and upgrades were carried out in 2014 and 2015. The hotel currently has 24 rooms.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '8.9 " N , 8 ° 32' 38.6" E ; CH1903: 683 494 / 247067