Berghotel Schatzalp

Berghotel Schatzalp is a historic hotel built in the Art Nouveau style and listed Cultural Property of National Significance in Davos, eastern Switzerland.

It is located above the western side of Davos at 1,860 metres (6,100 ft) above sea level on the historic path over the Strela Pass,[1] and forms part of the Schatzalp skiing and recreational area, near the Rinerhorn [de].

[7] The sanitorium is a setting in Thomas Mann's 1924 novel The Magic Mountain,[8] which tells the story of a young engineer, Hans Castorp, who visits his sick cousin at the tuberculosis sanatorium, and ends up staying in Davos for seven years.

[11] The building was converted along with its glass pavilions into a resort hotel in the late 1930s by the Nazis,[8] though the website states that it didn't commence operations as the Berghotel Schatzalp until 1953-4.

On the opening day of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in January 2023, some 50 leaders including Klaus Schwab, head of the WEF, Antonio Neri, the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, US senators Joe Manchin, Chris Coons and Kyrsten Sinema and Georgia governor Brian Kemp, met together for a private lunch in the Bell Epoque restaurant of the hotel.

The Alpinum, which has about 3500 species of plants,[14] from as far afield as Nepal and Tibet, was created in the early years of the sanatorium by Dr. Edward Neumann[1] and is open from mid-May to mid-October.

Exteiror of the Berghotel Schatzalp
The piano bar of the Berghotel Schatzalp
The alpinum