Hotel Waldhaus Vulpera

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Buildings by the Waldhaus Vulpera hotel company, around 1900

The Hotel Waldhaus Vulpera is a spa building and grand hotel in Eastern Switzerland. The building, built in the neo-renaissance style with artistic sgraffito elements, was for a long time the first address in Europe for spa tourism in the Alps and a landmark of the Belle Époque . With 270 beds it was the largest hotel in Scuol - Tarasp - Vulpera and went down in architectural history as one of the most important new hotels of the 19th century . In 1989 it burned down.

history

Memorial stone of the hotelier Duri Pinösch in the Kurpark Vulpera

The Grandhotel Waldhaus Vulpera was built in 1896–97 on behalf of the Waldhaus Vulpera hotel company by the architect Nikolaus Hartmann senior (1838–1903), it was opened on June 8, 1897. Friedrich Dürrenmatt was also a regular guest at the Waldhaus from 1959 , who used his stays to incorporate them into his last novel, Durcheinandertal .

In 1883 the brothers Duri and Caspar Pinösch from Ardez took over the Pension Waldhaus in Vulpera. The basement and the ground floor rooms of the Waldhaus guesthouse were partially integrated into the south wing of the new hotel building from 1896–1897, the rest of the Waldhaus guesthouse was demolished.

In 1886 a wooden chalet was built as a villa dependance of the Hotel Waldhaus Vulpera on behalf of the Pinösch brothers by the builders Baur and Nabholz (Seefeld Zurich). From June 10, 1894 to July 11, 1894, the Queen of the Netherlands Wilhelmina (Netherlands) was a guest in this chalet . Because of this visit, the villa is now called Villa Wilhelmina or Villa Wilhelmine .

In 1894, Vulpera received its own power plant from Brown, Boveri & Cie and Escher Wyss & Cie.

In 1930 the Waldhaus Vulpera hotel company built the third hotel outdoor pool in Switzerland (also known as the lido).

On 27 May 1989, the hotel was one by arson caused major fire destroyed. According to the annual report of the Graubünden building insurance, this resulted in a total loss with a total loss of CHF 23 million. Today there is a park in which there are still elements of the grand hotel (fountain and cast iron columns) and the Villa Wilhelmina.

Hotels of the former Waldhaus Vulpera hotel company still in operation today are the Hotel Schweizerhof (built 1898–1900 by Karl Gottlieb Koller), the Hotel Villa Post (built in 1901 as Vulpera's post office) and the Hotel Villa Engiadina (built in 1901 by Karl Gottlieb Koller ). The hotel swimming pool, which still exists in its original state, the golf courses of the Golf Club Vulpera created in 1923 and the power plant museum also bear witness to the creative power of the Pinösch hotelier dynasty. It was mainly because of these unique hotel buildings that Vulpera was included in the inventory of places worthy of protection in Switzerland .

Exhibitions

  • Architecture of a family. Exhibition on the architect of the Waldhaus Vulpera. October 30, 2015 - February 7, 2016. Rhaetian Museum Chur.
  • As the guest likes it. Hotel architecture then and now. The Yellow House, Flims , 2008–2009. (The exhibition presented ten hotel biographies, including Waldhaus Vulpera - broken off hot?. )
  • Grand Hotel Abyss: Poetry and Poets in the Hotel. Neuhardenberg Castle Foundation . September 1, 2009 to October 25, 2009. (The exhibition conceived by the Literaturhaus München included, among other things, exhibits from the Hotel Waldhaus Vulpera and was supplemented for Neuhardenberg by pieces from Grand Hotels in Berlin and enhanced by a visual art installation by Udo Lindenberg.)

Movies

  • Tender is the Night (1985) BBC adaptation of the novel "Tender is the Night" ( Tender Is the Night ) by F. Scott Fitzgerald . (Backdrop)
  • Fire of the Hotel Waldhaus in Vulpera TV documentary by Claudia Knapp color / Romanesque 6 Min, 1989.
  • Origin and effect of the sources of Tarasp-Schuls-Vulpera (1941) Educational film with animated film sequences and recordings of the Tarasp-Vulpera spa by the spa doctors of the Grand Hotel Waldhaus Vulpera Dr. Pauline Lenz and Dr. MS Meier in cooperation with Schmalfilm AG Zurich, black and white / silent film with subtitles.

literature

  • Roland Flückiger-Seiler: Hotel dreams between glaciers and palm trees. Hotel palaces between dream and reality. Swiss tourism and hotel construction 1830–1920. Hier und Jetzt, Baden 2003, ISBN 3-906419-68-1 , pp. 166-219.
  • Kristiana Hartmann: Master builder in Graubünden: Three generations of Nicolaus Hartmann (1850 to 1950) Desertina, Chur 2015, ISBN 978-3-85637-474-7 .
  • M. Jakob: The park of the Villa Wilhelmina. Graubünden Magazin, Summer 2005, pp. 8–17.
  • Marcella Maier: Old Gardens in Switzerland: Vulpera Kurpark. Anthos. Journal for open space design, green and landscape planning, 1995, Volume 34 (2), p. 39.
  • Ulrich Weber: The Kurhaus in the "Durcheinandertal". Friedrich Dürrenmatt and the "Waldhaus Vulpera" In: Cordula Seger (Ed.): Grand Hotel. Stage of literature. Dölling and Galitz, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-937904-54-2 , pp. 159-171.
  • Jochen Philipp Ziegelmann: Waldhaus Vulpera: Secrets of a Grand Hotel. BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2020, ISBN 978-3-750425-69-9 .
Novels
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Tangled Valley. Diogenes, Zurich 1989; New edition 1998, ISBN 3-257-23067-2 .
  • Pauline Lenz: The spa doctor. A novel after life. The Rose, Munich-Unterhaching 1959.

Web links

Commons : Hotel Waldhaus Vulpera  - Collection of images

Coordinates: 46 ° 47 '15.5 "  N , 10 ° 17' 20.8"  E ; CH1903:  817608  /  185784