Piz Gloria

Piz Gloria is the name of the panorama restaurant on the Schilthorn near Mürren in the Bernese Oberland ( Switzerland ). The cable car station and the rotating Piz Gloria buildings were built by the Bernese architect, Konrad Wolf 1963-1968.

Four cable car connections in series were needed to get from the valley to the panoramic restaurant. Due to the difficult conditions in high alpine location essential components had to be largely prefabricated. The outer skin of the glass-enclosed upper floor consists of aluminum -clad wood panels, roof of the tent was also originally bare aluminum and is now coated aluminum. By means of a rotation mechanism are all guests are offered equivalent viewpoints: To a core diameter of 7.5 meters, two separately switchable circular rings rotate, each 2.5 meters wide.

The driven by solar energy revolving restaurant rotates in about 48 minutes around its own axis.

• Outer ring: 216 seats (36 tables of 6 places)
• Inner ring: 192 seats (24 tables with 8 places increased; rotation is optionally turned off, if only tables of the outer ring are occupied )

The panoramic restaurant on the Schilthorn summit is considered a pioneer in the field of power Tourismusbauten. The futuristic for its time building testifies in an impressive way by the zeitgeist of the 1960s. The mountain restaurant was rebuilt and enlarged in 1990 partly, but retained its original character.

The Piz Gloria has been the setting of some key scenes in the James Bond film On Her Majesty, the location was discovered by the German production manager Hubert Fröhlich.