Hotel Kurhaus on Lake Sarnen
| Hotel Kurhaus on Lake Sarnen | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Foundation, endowment |
| founding | 1896 |
| Seat | Wilen , Switzerland |
| management | Roman Wüst (Director) Diego Bazzocco (Head of Hotel Kurhaus am Sarnersee) |
| Number of employees | 40 (2019) |
| Branch | Healthcare |
| Website | www.kurhaus.info |
The Hotel Kurhaus am Sarnersee is a spa hotel in Wilen am Sarnersee in the canton of Obwalden . It has a long history as a drinking sanctuary , boarding house, agricultural school, nursing school and health resort .
history
The foundation stone was laid in 1899. The history of this property can be seen in the name given to it over the course of time: Heimwesen “ Flüeli ” (“Vorderes Flüeli”), sanatorium for drinking, Vonderflüh guest house , Bruderklausenhof and Kurhaus am Sarnersee. The “Flüeli” home was owned by Peter Anton Ming , who also ran his first medical practice here. With his support, the Swiss Catholic Pius Society opened the “Vonderflüh” guesthouse in 1899, a sanatorium for alcoholics. In the same year, the new building maintenance of the Wilerstrasse was carried out, later a chapel for the pastoral needs of the institution, a greenhouse for the large market garden, two drying ovens and the workshop on the lake. Mainly male curants from Switzerland sought a cure from the alcoholism, which was widespread at the time, in the Vonderflüh guesthouse . As part of their rehab, the majority of the patients were employed in agriculture or in the quarry on Giglenstrasse, and there was also a printing shop, a carpenter's shop and a forge in the buildings on the lake.
The foundation «Katholischer Heilstätteverein‹ Vonderflüh ›» bought the business in 1920 for a modest price. The company always had to struggle with financial difficulties. In 1952, the entire property on the front Flüeli was acquired by the Sarner Sisters' Association, and at the same time it was renamed "Bruderklausenhof".
The origin of the Sarner sisters goes back to the country doctor Julian Stockmann, who founded a nursing school in Sarnen in 1903 to improve home care. In 1914 the Sarner Nursing Association was founded. After the death of the co-founder of the association, Bertha Stockmann-Durrer, the daughters of the founding couple, Marie-Theres, Edith and Dora Stockmann, took over the management of the school. The number of professionally active Sarner sisters rose to around 300 by the mid-1940s. In 1949, the state recognition as family care by the medical directors' conference was significant. With the purchase of the "Bruderklausenhof" in 1952, the company had its own school and administration building, and with the agricultural sales department, later expansion options. The first agricultural school in Obwalden was run from 1957 to 1973 on this farm .
On the initiative of Heinrich Stockmann (son of Julian Stockmann), the intercantonal foundation "School for Nursing" was established in 1971 and part of the property below Wilerstrasse passed into their ownership. The entire agricultural business and the farmhouse (today called "Bergblick") remained the property of the Sarner Sisters' Association and its pension fund. After the agricultural school moved out, the house housed guest workers for a few years and later the "warm-up room". In 1983, after hard discussions about renovation or new construction, the sister association decided to maintain and comprehensively refurbish the traditional house.
In 1971 the “School for Nursing” foundation built the new, large school building below Wilerstrasse. Over 800 schoolchildren from all over Switzerland are trained here for community nursing every year. The three-year training program was recognized by the Swiss Red Cross in 1987 . The area of responsibility was expanded in 1990 with the creation of a new branch for advice in community health care.
The appearance of the buildings has also changed again and again in recent years. So the house on the lake was renovated and at the beginning of 1994 the main building remained wrapped in a plastic cover for months for the purpose of renovation work. With the addition of the top floor, ten apartments were set up for permanent guests. In the summer of 1993 the "Bruderklausenhof" was renamed to "Kurhaus am Sarnersee". In 1980 the second house - the guest house - was added. The Kurhaus attached to the school found its place there. In 1994 it accommodated around 21,000 overnight stays, of which 52% were convalescent spa guests and 48% holiday guests.
Due to structural changes in Swiss healthcare education, the school and with it the Kurhaus had to be closed in 2010.
The members of the board of trustees of the Residenz Am Schärme Sarnen retirement and nursing home then analyzed whether the Kurhaus would be continued under their leadership. After successful negotiations with the owner, the Intercantonal Spitex Foundation, the two foundations merged on April 25, 2012 to form the Foundation Future Age - Housing and Care.
The reopening ceremony of the Kurhaus took place on April 12, 2012. Renovation and redevelopment measures began immediately - the former school building was converted to accommodate the hotel and spa.
literature
- Andreas Anderhalden: Security on Lake Sarnen. Stories of the Am Schärme Residence and the Kurhaus on Lake Sarnen. Brunner Verlag, Kriens 2016, ISBN 978-3-03727-068-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the Hotel Kurhaus am Sarnersee on the hotel's website, accessed on December 14, 2019.
- ↑ https://query-staatsarchiv.lu.ch/detail.aspx?ID=775307 // Swiss Catholic Pius Association
- ↑ // Online archive catalog of the Obwalden State Archives
- ↑ Stockmann Fund on the Stockmann Fund website, accessed on December 27, 2019.
- ↑ https://www.luzernerzeitung.ch/zentralschweiz/obwalden/sarnen-kurhaus-am-sarnersee-soll-fuer-weiter-nutzungen-geoeffnet- wird- ld.49715 // Kurhaus am Sarnersee is to be opened for further uses
Coordinates: 46 ° 53 '17.2 " N , 8 ° 13' 58" E ; CH1903: six hundred and sixty thousand five hundred twenty-five / 193,306