Piz Gloria

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The revolving restaurant Piz Gloria on the Schilthorn in Switzerland. In the background: Gspaltenhorn & Blümlisalp
View from the Piz Gloria restaurant onto the terrace

Piz Gloria is the panorama restaurant on the Schilthorn near Mürren in the Bernese Oberland ( Switzerland ). The cable car station and the Piz Gloria revolving building were built by the Bernese architect Konrad Wolf between 1963 and 1968 .

Four cable car connections in a row were necessary to get from the valley to the panorama restaurant. Due to the difficult conditions in high alpine locations, essential components had to be largely prefabricated. The outer skin of the all-round glazed upper floor consists of aluminum-clad wooden panels, the tent roof was originally also bare aluminum and is now coated aluminum. By means of a rotating mechanism, all guests are offered equivalent vantage points: two separately switchable circular rings, each 2.5 meters wide, rotate around a core with a diameter of 7.5 meters.

The revolving restaurant, powered by solar energy, rotates on its own axis in around 48 minutes.

  • Outer ring: 216 seats (36 tables with 6 seats each)
  • Inner ring: 192 seats (24 tables with 8 seats each, raised; rotation may be switched off if only tables in the outer ring are occupied)

The panorama restaurant on the Schilthorn summit is considered a pioneering achievement in the field of tourist buildings. The building, which was futuristic for the time, impressively bears witness to the zeitgeist of the 1960s. The mountain restaurant was partially rebuilt and enlarged around 1990, but retained its original character.

The name of the restaurant goes back to a fictional mountain peak from the James Bond novel On Her Majesty's Service , which serves as the central location there. The summit is said to be in the Upper Engadine , not far from Pontresina , at approx. 3000 m above sea level. M. (Hence the name " Piz ", Romansh for summit.) The Piz Gloria was the location for some key scenes of the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service , the location was selected by the German production manager Hubert Fröhlich .

literature

  • Walter Amstutz (Ed.): Schilthorn. An alpine revelation. First ascent routes on the north face of the Bernese Alps since the conquest of the Jungfrau in 1811. DeClivio Press. Zurich 1974.
  • Daniel Bernet: From Morgan to Bond - Schilthornbahn 1959–1969. bezg.ch (PDF).

Web links

Commons : Piz Gloria  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Photo gallery. Walter Riml's estate, archived from the original on July 7, 2014 ; accessed on July 7, 2014 (work recordings vd shooting).
  2. ↑ About Hubert Fröhlich's work. Walter Riml's estate, archived from the original on July 7, 2014 ; accessed on July 7, 2014 (information).

Coordinates: 46 ° 33 '29.8 "  N , 7 ° 49' 59.3"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and thirty thousand two hundred and fifty-one  /  156409