Hotel Widder

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Hotel Widder
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Hotel Widder
General information
Type Hotel
Address Rennweg 7
Zurich
CountrySwitzerland
Coordinates 47°22′21″N8°32′23″E / 47.372525°N 8.539817°E / 47.372525; 8.539817
Opened1995(30 years ago) (1995)
OwnerThe Living Circle
Other information
Number of rooms49
Website
www.widderhotel.com/en/

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]

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]

References

  1. ↑ Riewoldt, Otto; Hudson, Jennifer (1998). Hotel Design. Laurence King. p. 124. ISBN   978-1-85669-127-7.
  2. 1 2 "Our Hotel". - Widder Hotel - Zurich’s Luxury Hideaway. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
  3. ↑ Webb, Sally (25 October 2014). "Widder Hotel, Zurich, review: where history, culture and fine food meet". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
  4. 1 2 Webb, Sally (25 October 2014). "Widder Hotel, Zurich, review: where history, culture and fine food meet". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
  5. ↑ Hofmann, Paul (22 June 1997). "Zurich". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 3 July 2025.
  6. ↑ Langley, Alison (23 November 2003). "WHAT'S DOING IN; Zurich". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 3 July 2025.
  7. ↑ Olson, Elizabeth (25 February 2003). "BUSINESS TRAVEL: ON THE GROUND -- In Zurich; A Banking Center Is Trying to Overcome Its Staid Company-Town Image". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 3 July 2025.
  8. 1 2 "UBS Sells Swiss Luxury Hotel". finews.com. 31 August 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
  9. ↑ "Real-estate giant Swiss Life buys Zurich luxury hotel property from UBS". Reuters. 31 August 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
  10. ↑ "Widder Hotel Zurich". The Living Circle. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
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