| Hotel Widder | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Hotel |
| Location | Rennweg 7 Zurich, Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 47°22′21″N8°32′23″E / 47.372525°N 8.539817°E |
| Opened | 1995 |
| Owner | The Living Circle |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 49 |
| Website | |
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The Hotel Widder is a hotel and restaurant in Zurich, Switzerland. Established in 1995, [1] it is located on Rennweg, in Niederdorf, in the city's Altstadt district. The hotel's 49 rooms are spread across nine medieval townhouses, [2] the oldest of which dates to the 13th century. [3] Widder is German for ram, with the name being chosen for the hotel because one of the townhouses was the guildhouse for a master butcher. [4]
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In 2003, when the hotel had its original eight townhouses and 42 rooms, [5] [6] it was owned by Swiss bank UBS. [7] UBS sold the property to insurance company Swiss Life in 2018, [8] [9] while the hotel business is part of The Living Circle group, which is based in Zurich's Bleicherweg. [10]
The hotel underwent a large renovation in 2009 [4] and in 2016, the latter to a design by architect Tilla Theus. [8]
Its two restaurants are named Boucherie AuGust and the Widder Restaurant. [2]
