# Grandhotel Giessbach: A hotel given to the Swiss

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- Place : Grandhotel Giessbach, Brienz, Oberland bernois, CH (https://giessbach.ch/)

> High above Lake Brienz in the Bernese Oberland, the Grandhotel Giessbach faces the Giessbach falls. Due to be demolished in 1979, it has belonged since…

A hotel given to the Swiss

## Grandhotel Giessbach

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High above Lake Brienz in the Bernese Oberland, the Grandhotel Giessbach faces the Giessbach falls. Due to be demolished in 1979, it has belonged since 1983 to a foundation set up to give it “to the Swiss people”. Guests still ride up from the lake on the 1879 funicular.

Horace Édouard Davinet designed it between 1873 and 1875 for the Hauser family of hoteliers. In 1979 the hotel closed and its owners planned to pull it down for a large chalet. The environmentalist Franz Weber then raised money across the country: in 1983 his foundation bought the 22-hectare estate and had it listed. The hotel reopened in 1984 and was fully restored by 1989.

For a team, the Belle Époque salon, a former ballroom opening onto the falls, seats 120 to 150 for dinner; the Davinet salon holds 80 theatre-style; the Seeblick room 40, facing the lake. From April to October, take the train to Brienz or Interlaken Ost, then the boat and the funicular; in winter the hotel opens Wednesday to Sunday and a shuttle runs from Brienz station.

Photo credits : qwesy qwesy (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0) ; JoachimKohler-HB (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) ; Schoepet (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) ; Hansueli Krapf (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) ; Krol:k (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) ; Viktor Heitmann (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)

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