Helmhaus (Hotel)

The Helmet House Hotel is a 4 -star hotel in Zurich at the pier on the right side of the Limmat in the old town, one of the oldest sites in the history of Zurich accommodation. For 2014, it is the smallest and most central 4-star hotel in the city.

History

Origin

The hotel takes its name from the nearby helmet house that was used in medieval times as a place of judgment.

As an accommodation facility, the building became the Rosslyn mentioned in the history books for the first time in 1356 under the name of Hie ( Here, for Rössli). The house was a fief of the woman Münster Abbey. The owner at that time was probably in the service of the abbot of Einsiedeln Abbey in Zurich.

15th and 16th centuries

One of the many Rössli hosts was Junker Oswald Reinhart (also: Osswald Reinhart ) from Kempten ( Allgäu). In 1468 Reinhart received the civil rights of the city of Zurich and took over in 1487 with his wife Elisabetha Wunzürn (also: Elssbetha Wynzürnin ) to the economy of Rössli. Reinhart's daughter Anna, who spent part of her childhood in Rössli, lived from 1522 together with the Reformer and secular priest Ulrich Zwingli and married this April 2, 1524 second marriage in Grossmünsterplatz. Anna Reinhart was the first pastor's wife in Switzerland and built the Zurich arms being on. At it still reminds a brass plaque on the facade of the hotel.

While the Zurich iconoclasm in 1524, the choir master of the Grossmünsterplatz Rudolf Koch led initiative to Zwingli that the altarpieces of the painter Hans Leu the Elder were spent in the paneling of the Rössli, to save them from destruction. Early 20th century, the images were re-discovered by chance during a rebuild and can be visited at the Swiss National Museum.

Newer time

From 1833 onwards, the house was an annex of the Hôtel du Lac on the Limmat, where an Italian restaurant is housed. 1935, the current hotel helmet house has been converted into a business and apartment house, in the ground floor café Sultan was. 1961 there was a further conversion to Hotel Garni Mondial.

In 1970 the hotel was purchased by the Swiss family Mengis and Weibel, who christened it the name helmet house. It leads that passes the 650 -year tradition of Zurich accommodation. Extensive renovation work has since included among other things the removal of the attic in an additional fifth floor with five designer rooms as well as the contribution of wood flooring in all rooms. The last major renovation took place in the years 2008 to 2012. The hotel currently has 24 rooms.