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Why the need for a new building?
Ever since it was built as the Katharinenhof in the late nineteenth century, the hotel has been repeatedly adapted to meet new architectural demands. Particularly drastic measures were taken in the sixties. The old hipped roof was removed, an extra floor was built and a new flatter roof added in sixties style.
A further intervention, several years later, affected the hall, which was replaced by a two-storey connecting structure, and at the same time robbed the façades of their decorative elements, which had required a lot of maintenance. This resulted in the complete disfigurement of the late nineteenth-century building as well as the bordering property. Further work on the interior produced a rather confused situation inside the hotel as well.
Following the change of owner, every possible type of new use was examined, but it was ultimately decided that the former cultural and culinary centre of the community should be rebuilt. As the existing structure was not remotely capable of meeting the demands made of a modern hotel today, new types of building were considered. The Cantonal historic buildings authority could find no parts of the old building worth preserving either and encouraged the owners to demolish it.
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