Johann Jakob Breitinger (architect)

This timber construction in what became the "typical Swiss" style was an ambitiously conceived hotel and an early indication of the boom in Alpine tourism that would take off later in the century.

Later in the decade he worked for the competing United Swiss Railways company, responsible for the construction of a series of stations along the lines from the northeast of Switzerland to Chur.

Between 1857 and 1867 he engaged more directly in the political aspects of Zürich's urban development, serving as a "Gemeinderat" (loosely, "local councillor") and as a member of the city's Buildings Commission.

Along with Leonhard Zeugheer, Gustav Albert Wegmann and Ferdinand Stadler, Breitinger was part of a new generation of Zürich architects who learned their craft before a structured training programme in Architecture had been created in Switzerland.

[4] That deficiency would be remedied by the creation during the 1850s of the "Polytechnikum Academy", followed by the emergence from it of a subsequent generation of architecture students taught and mentored by the formidable Gottfried Semper.

In 1876 he relocated again, this time to Weesen (St. Gallen) where he continued working for the rest of his life, notably on plans for the Protestant church at Siebnen[9] and for the Stachelberg thermal resort (LinthalGL), completed posthumously in 1881.