In 1859, Burkhard Pfyffer bought a plot of land on the Gütsch hill from the town and was granted the right to run an inn.

In 1868 Queen Victoria stayed at a site near the hotel with Prince Arthur and Princess Louise.

[2] As part of a significant transalpine railroad development and modernization plan in Switzerland in the second half of the 19th century, the Gütsch Funicular railline was built connecting Lucerne to the château.

[1] A large part of the hotel was completely destroyed in the great fire of 1888.

[4] It was purchased by Evgeny Lebedev in 2012, who commissioned Martyn Lawrence Bullard to renovate it.