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Unique Hotel Innere Enge
Bern, Switzerland · Independent · Near Luxury
Marian's Jazzroom has occupied the cellar since 1992, in the inn the Burgergemeinde Bern rebuilt from 1864 to 1866 on a wooded plateau above the city. Hans Zurbrügg and Marianne Gauer signed a building lease in 1991 and restored the house in eleven months, then gave fifteen of the twenty-six rooms to jazz musicians. The park still frames the Alps, and the house chronicle says Empress Joséphine took a grand déjeuner here in 1810 for that view.
- 26 rooms
- Opened 1992
- Neighborhood: Innere Enge
- Rooms from 323 sq ft (30 m²)
- Interiors: Marianne Gauer
About Unique Hotel Innere Enge
- The plot is already in the building record in 1716 as the Viererhäuschen, and by 1762 it was fitted as a whey-cure house for summer guests, a quarter hour from the Aarberger Gate.
- In 1984 Bern's voters accepted the initiative Rettet die Innere Enge and kept these grounds a protected green zone, blocking a large project the city had approved in 1981.
- Marianne Gauer opened a hotel design office in Singapore in 1971. Swissinfo credits her with work for the Hilton in Hong Kong and the Swissôtel in Beijing before this inn became the jazz house.
- The hotel's own history says the Innere Enge took part in the 1914 national exhibition, decades before the jazz club moved into the cellar.
- Entry-level rooms start at 323 sq ft (30 m²).
History
The Burgergemeinde Bern's chronicle of this plateau runs from a 1716 repair of the Viererhäuschen through a 1762 whey-cure summer house and a grand déjeuner the house says was given for Empress Joséphine in 1810. The burghers decided on a new building in 1863 and finished it between 1864 and 1866. A 1981 development scheme was stopped in 1984 when voters accepted the initiative Rettet die Innere Enge and kept the grounds a green zone. In 1991 Hans Zurbrügg and Marianne Gauer, through Innere Enge AG, took a building lease from the Burgergemeinde and restored the monument with the city preservation office in eleven months. Marian's Jazzroom opened in the cellar in 1992. Fifteen of the 26 rooms are dedicated to jazz musicians.
The setting
Engestrasse 54, 3012 Bern, in the Innere Enge, on the Burgergemeinde's old pleasure grounds north of the Aarberger Gate. The park and the view to the Alps are the reason for the address. The old town is downhill, not next door.
Experiences
- Marians Jazzroom — Jazz room where the musicians whose memorabilia-furnished rooms are in the hotel stayed and performed.
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