Grand Hotel Kronenhof

The Kronenhof is a historic hotel dating from the Belle Epoque in Pontresina in the Engadine in Switzerland. The hotel was more than 140 years of ownership by the founding family Gredig. It is located in the village of Laret directly at the Evangelical Church of San Niculò and is guided in the list of cultural assets of national significance in the canton of Grisons.

History

1848 bought Andreas Gredig ( 1806-1877 ), Gasthaus Rössli for his son Lorenz Gredig ( 1829-1905 ). This operation adjacent to the inn also a wine shop. With additions and with the inclusion of existing outbuildings Lorenz Gredig his inn steadily enlarged and expanded it to the hotel. This he first called " Gasthaus zur Krone-Post " and later "crown". Between 1896 and 1898, the architect Jacob and Georg Ragaz expanded the hotel to a representative, horseshoe-shaped three- winged structure with courtyard (French Cour d' honneur ), surmounted by a crowned dome, which still today the main entrance of the hotel and the Neo-Baroque style designed light-flooded entrance hall houses. The hotel's name has now been changed to " Grand Hotel Kronenhof and Bella Vista ", from which later the present name " Grand Hotel Kronenhof " derived. The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 put further expansion plans to an abrupt end. The war and crisis years impacted the " Grand Hotel Kronenhof " in its economy. But always further operated wine shop and agriculture also guaranteed the survival of the hotels in these years.

1989 sold the heirs of the founding family Gredig her Grand Hotel at two Swiss private investors. They sold it in 2004 to the Joint Stock Company " Grand Hotels Engadinerkulm ", which is also the owner of the historic " Hotel Kulm " in St. Moritz. 2004 began extensive renovation work. The hotel has been preserved both inside and outside still largely in its original state from the Belle Epoque.