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Hotel Ritta Höppner
Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil · Independent · Accessible Luxury
In 1979 Otto Höppner built a dollhouse for his granddaughter, and that gift became Mini Mundo, the miniature city Gramado still treats as part of its skyline. He and Ritta had met in Hamburg in the 1930s, reached the Planalto in 1956, and opened the first heated chalets in 1958. After Ritta died in 1973 the hotel took her name. Afternoon tea is part of the day, the chalets answer to Branca de Neve, Romeu and Soneca, and a Mini Mundo ticket comes with the room.
- Opened 1958
- Neighborhood: Planalto
About Hotel Ritta Höppner
- The Capela dos Anjos opened with the hotel's reopening on 8 March 2016: a Swiss church front, an interior recalling Cortina d'Ampezzo, and a bell tuned to the note A.
- Artist Patrízia Trovati Hering painted the angels, the windows and the plaster frames of the Capela dos Anjos. The kneelers were carved by hand and covered in German velvet, and about 100 people fit.
- Mini Mundo's first wooden buildings, at a scale of 1 to 24, went up in 1981: Neuschwanstein, Lichtenstein, Neuffen station and a Coester aeromóvel.
- Before the chalets, Otto worked as a mason in the Planalto and Ritta ran the leased Pensão Postweiler. They had married in Hamburg in 1939.
- The heated chalets still carry fairy-tale names, among them Branca de Neve, Romeu, Julieta, Soneca, Dengoso and Atchim.
History
Otto Höppner met Ritta, a Brazilian daughter of Germans, in Hamburg in the 1930s. They married in 1939, left Germany after the war, and reached Gramado in 1956. Otto worked as a mason in the Planalto. Ritta ran the leased Pensão Postweiler. In 1958 they built the first heated chalets of what began as Veraneio Ritta Höppner. After Ritta's death in 1973 the sign became Hotel Ritta Höppner. In 1979 Otto built a dollhouse for his granddaughter, the seed of Mini Mundo. The first wooden models, at a scale of 1 to 24, appeared in 1981, including Neuschwanstein, Lichtenstein, Neuffen station and a Coester aeromóvel. The park's anniversary is 15 December, the 1983 reopening. The Capela dos Anjos opened on 8 March 2016 with the hotel's own reopening: a Swiss church facade, an interior recalling Cortina d'Ampezzo, hand-carved kneelers in German velvet, paintings by Patrízia Trovati Hering, and a bell tuned to A.
Restaurants and bars
- Restaurante alemão do hotel — Restaurant · German
Amenities
- Cinco exclusivas acomodações que podem ser locadas junto com o salão
- Jardins com araucárias e gazebo
- Coordenação de eventos
- Serviço à francesa e buffet
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