Camille of Renesse-Breidbach

Camille Maximilien Frédéric de Renesse - Breidbach ( born July 9, 1836 in Brussels, † June 12, 1904 in Nice ) was a Belgian count, entrepreneur and author.

Count de Renesse came from a noble family Dutch nobility and was born in 1836 in Brussels. On November 10, 1868, he married the Countess de Malvina Kerkove of Deterghem. When Count de Renesse 1880 stayed on vacation in St. Moritz, his vision of a huge hotel with Grand Hotel, spas and golf courses for the European aristocrats came to build. After he failed initially in Celerina, Sils and finally in St. Moritz at the influence of Badrutt family, he was able to buy on Lake Sils Maloja in 140 acres of land.

Between 1882 and 1884 he made his dream with the construction of the Hôtel de la Kursaal Maloja (now Maloja Palace ) realize. However, since only a few days after opening in Italy broke a cholera epidemic and the borders were closed, Count de Renesse had to declare bankruptcy in the same year. In addition, his wife, Countess de Kerkove, died in the fall of 1884 in Basel of a fatty heart.

For a long time was subsequently rumored Count de Renesse had fallen down in the champagne noise from his residence, the Belvedere tower above the hotel, the Bergell; However, he lived until 1904 in Nice, where he wrote Christian literature.