[1] Located in the village of Bergün/Bravuogn in the Albula valley, south of Chur and north of St. Moritz, at an altitude of approximately 1,350 metres (4,429 ft) above mean sea level, the Kurhaus is a well preserved/restored hotel of the Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) era.

[1] Design was entrusted to the Zürich architect Jost-Franz Huwyler-Boller (1874–1930) who also worked on the Hotel Cresta Palace in Celerina at about the same time.

In 1911 the Kurhaus opened for its first winter season, once the firm "Oberrauch" of Davos had fitted a hot-water distributed central heating system.

The wider development of Bergün/Bravuogn as a tourist destination that had been anticipated in 1906 never materialised: the Kurhaus has remained the only substantial hotel in the village.

The spectacular Albula Railway did indeed provide, for the first time, a reliable year-round transport connection towards Chur, but it also enabled the well-heeled to travel directly to higher and better promoted resorts further south in Grisons, notably St. Moritz and Pontresina,[6] without needing to pause at Bergün/Bravuogn Despite bitter resistance from some of the canton's conservative elements, the ban on private motor car usage was grudgingly lifted in the mid-1920s, and during the ensuing decades the more prosperous guests for whom the hotel had been designed increasingly used cars, which highlighted the fact that the village had never acquired reliable year-round road links, especially upriver, to the south.

[7] In 2002 a group of the former regular guests teamed up to form the company "Kurhaus Bergün AG" and in the same year succeeded in buying the hotel for 1.5 Million Swiss francs.

The 230m² dining room with its original windows and rehabilitated wall coverings and light fittings is described as one of the most precious Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) interiors in Switzerland.

In 2009 the Kurhaus Bergün joined the "Swiss-Historic-Hotels" marketing co-operative, of which the hotel's director, Christof Steiner, is currently (2015) president.