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Seehotel Wilerbad
Wilen, Switzerland · Independent · Near Luxury
A sulfur spring at this shore was already in the records in 1605. By 1819 the bath held about twenty guests, who slept on sacks of leaves and arrived on foot or by sedan chair up a rough pack trail. The spring later failed. From 1927 Moritz Rogger turned the old cure house into a hotel, and the Seehotel you book now opened in the spring of 1995. Sixty-one rooms face the Sarnersee from Wilerbadstrasse 6, in Wilen beside Sarnen.
- 61 rooms
- Opened 1995
- Neighborhood: Wilen (Sarnen)
About Seehotel Wilerbad
- From 1843 to 1881 Dr Johann Kaspar Jakober, a practicing physician, ran the cure house. In 1881 the church council, uneasy about the inn's reputation, allowed the bar to serve only Most and brandy.
- In 2013 the owners spent 8.5 million francs on a new spa by Sarnen architects Monika and Eugen Imhof, about 1,300 square metres where four primitive cabins once stood. Another 2.5 million went into spa suites. The sulfur spring was already dry.
- Since 1996 the house has belonged to the Rainer Peikert family, with daughter Simona Segantini-Peikert now in the business. Fifty-one of the rooms look at the lake, and the little Wilerbädli beach is where summer weddings gather.
History
The sulfur bath at Wilen is on paper from 1605. In 1687 the authorities asked the owner to build a dwelling over it. An 1819 bathhouse held about twenty guests on leaf sacks, with four cabins upstairs and bathing boxes in the cellar. Dr Johann Kaspar Jakober ran it from 1843 to 1881. Moritz Rogger began turning it into a hotel in 1927. The spring dried up. Peikert of Zug took over in 1987, and today's Seehotel Wilerbad opened in spring 1995. A new spa by Monika and Eugen Imhof opened in 2013.
The setting
Wilerbadstrasse 6, 6062 Wilen am Sarnersee, on the Sarnersee in Obwalden, about twenty minutes from Lucerne. The hotel collects guests from Sarnen station. The postal name is Wilen am Sarnersee.
Restaurants and bars
- Klassisches Restaurant im Seehotel Wilerbad — Restaurant · Swiss
Amenities
- Panoramic and rooftop terrace
- Lakeside location on Lake Sarnen
- Customised menus or themed buffets
- Decorations in the client's favourite colour
- Choice of Thai or classic cuisine for catering
- Wedding documentation and catering & banquet documentation
- Apero and menu suggestions
- Vouchers available as PDF
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