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Hotel Waldhaus Sils

Thursday, 6 November 2025 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Free Trade Association
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🔊 Listen to this Post The Hotel Waldhaus is a historic hotel in Sils-Maria in the Upper Engadine region of Grisons, Switzerland. It is one of the few five-star hotels in Switzerland that has been owned by the same family since its opening.

The Hotel Waldhaus in Sils-Maria opened in 1908. It was commissioned by hotelier Josef Giger-Nigg and designed by the young architect Karl Koller, who had just established himself as a hotel architect in the Engadine region. Both its exterior and interior design reflect the evolution from the exuberant style of the Belle Époque to the simpler aesthetics of the early 20th century.

The historic “Waldhaus” hotel is largely preserved in its original condition, both inside and out, including the furnishings. The Welte-Mignon piano, a mechanical piano purchased in 1910 from the company M. Welte & Sons in Freiburg im Breisgau for 2100 Reichsmarks and played with music rolls, still stands in the hotel’s music salon. The Hotel Waldhaus also houses paintings by Clara Porges, as well as works by Gottardo Segantini and the photographer Albert Steiner.

Guests included Theodor W. Adorno, Thomas Bernhard, Joseph Beuys, Marion Countess Dönhoff, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Fritz Stern, and Luchino Visconti, as well as Gerhard Richter and Jonathan Meese. Emil Rathenau, Samuel Fischer (publisher), Max Reinhardt, Albert Einstein, Otto Klemperer, and Max Liebermann, all with Jewish family backgrounds, were also regular guests at the Waldhotel.

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