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Chronicle of Hotel Alpenblick

Chronicle of Hotel AlpenblickAfter a major fire in 1912, Anna Vogelbacher built the first part of today's "Alpenblick" and set up a general shop in it.


Max Kaiser acquired the property and opened a farm and a bakery in the "Alpenblick" in 1916.

1921

Marriage of the daughter of master baker Kaiser to the later hotelier Bernhard Porten, opening of the "Café und Weinstube Alpenblick", ancestral home of the Porten family

1936/37

Conversion of the "Alpenblick" into a hotel

1954

Hotelier and master baker Max Porten, son of Bernhard Porten, takes over the "Alpenblick"

1964

Opening of the "Hotzenstube", today's "St.-Georg-Stube"

1977

Opening of the "Badener Stube"

1978

Extensive renovation

1991

The hotel was destroyed by a major fire, only the outer walls were preserved

1992

Construction & reopening with new conference room

2000

Sale of the Hotel Alpenblick from Max Porten to the Ferdinand & Renate Thoma family

2003

The Thoma family acquires the neighbouring property at Poststrasse 12, formerly the "Huber-Haus", now a wellness building and suite house with a connecting corridor to the wellness building

06-12/2006

New construction of the wellness building with direct connection to the main building

21.12.2006

Opening of the "Alpenblick-SPA" with brine pool, saunas, salt relaxation room (salarium), treatment rooms, relaxation room with fireplace and the world's largest salt lamp, lounge with water station, fitness room and gymnastics room, as well as outdoor sunbathing terrace

12/2006

Inclusion of the "Alpenblick" in the Wellness Hotels Germany

01/2007

Joining the Private Selection Hotels, Lucerne

06/2007

Europe certification as an organic hotel

2007/2008

Extensive renovation of the guest rooms and bathrooms

07-08/2009

Comprehensive measures to insulate the main building from the outside, windows, doors, masonry

ab 08/2013

New construction of the "Suite House" with 10 spacious junior suites, bar-lounge

08/2013

Installation of the liquid gas-fuelled combined heat and power plant 20 KW/h electricity, 42 KW/h heat

04/2014

Opening of "Suite House" with wellness shop, underground car park, relaxation room and laboratory with production rooms for Kokoderma cosmetic products

04/2014

Participation in the filming of "Mein himmlisches Hotel"

05/2014

EMAS certification, presentation of the certificate by Minister Winfried Kretschmann

05/2016

Replacing urinals with waterless urinals with membrane technology without the use of chemicals in public toilet areas

06/2020

Installation of solar system (photovoltaic) on the wellness building, 27 KW/h electricity

04/2021

Complete insulation of top floor of main building and conversion into office space

05/2021

Conversion of green space into usable area for growing cut lettuce and herbs

07/21-06/22

Renovation of the guest rooms in the main building

05/22

Redesign of the exterior façade

from 09/2022 to current

External escape staircase, second escape route or escape route extension and new fire compartments/smoke protection doors

11-12/22

Renovation of the Badener Stube, St.-Georgsstube and Schwarzwaldstube

01/2023

Renewal and replacement of the defective heat recovery system for the utilisation of waste heat for heating from the refrigeration compressors, thus eliminating the 10 KW/h fan for 24 hours for the ventilation and cooling of the compressors

04/2023

Redesign of forecourt/entrance

06/2023

New installation of solar system on the suite house with 20 KW/h of electricity

Total in-house production now just under 70 KW/h

03/2024

Redesign of the outdoor terrace

2024

In planning: redesign of car park with construction of technical cellar and carports with photovoltaics for the production of hydrogen in stock for heating or construction of a hydrogen-powered combined heat and power plant.

Goal: Expansion/elimination of the old oil heating systems.

Insights into history

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