Landvogthaus, Historisches Erlebnishotel, Nidfurn

The bailiff's house as a total work of art - in harmony with hospitality, medieval architecture and artistic décor. The more than 400-year-old bailiff's house exudes an atmosphere of peace and timelessness; here our guests feel transported to another world. The late medieval Glarus country estate, which is unique in its kind, has four truly historic, individual and stylishly designed guest rooms.

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BARONESS
The attitude to life of a baroness

2 persons | 2 single beds
Private bathroom

The guest enters a room that exudes tranquility, aristocratic and at the same time rural. The bedroom is authentically furnished with a four-poster bed made of pure fir wood from the early 18th century from the St. Moritz area and with a bed with canopy from around 1880.

The wonderful porcelain plates with perfectly hand-painted rose decoration from the Royal Prussian Porcelain Manufactory date back to 1760. The small but fine pictures on the walls are reminiscent of the splendour of world-famous castles in England, France and Germany.

The room is the successful combination of the good old days with the magnificent view through the windows of imposing mountain ranges and the village, which still exists today, which makes a stay unforgettable.

The room has direct access to the bathroom in true Belle Époque style; a chimney with a wood-burning stove is a reminder that this area once contained a small kitchen.

ENGLISH
The classic English "paradise"

2 persons | 2 single beds
Shared, large bathroom

The charming and characterful room is reminiscent of the English lifestyle in the second half of the 19th century, the time when archaeologists Howard Carter and the Earl of Carnarvon ploughed the earth in Egypt and made breathtaking discoveries in the process.

It is also the time when Art Nouveau developed into an imaginative and wonderful art style and tourism in the Swiss Alps reached an unparalleled peak, thanks to the spectacular scenery of nature in the mountains.

In this room, guests have the opportunity to spend the night as was customary around 1880. There are two separate, handmade beds from the Historicist period.

The wallpapers have been designed by the English designer William Morris in the typical yellow manner. They go perfectly with the fine cloth curtains printed with filigree Chinese pagodas and sewn especially for this room. On the walls hang English plates in cobalt blue, which also date from the end of the 19th century.

There are also old illustrations on the walls from this time, as well as some photographs from when tourists discovered the Swiss Alps and traveled to Linthal by train directly from Paris and even without changing trains. Today's tourists, for example, travel by plane directly from Berlin to Zurich and from there directly to the Landvogthaus in Nidfurn to spend a week. This means home.

The yellow bathroom in the perfect and genuine Belle Époque style, one floor below, belongs to this room. A royal bathroom that amazes.

LANDVOGT
The stately bedroom of the bailiff

1 or 2 people | 1 bed (145 cm wide)
Shared, large bathroom

In this room, with the walls and ceiling and floor still authentically preserved, slept the bailiff Peter Blumer; even the door and its fittings and lock date from that time. The four-poster bed (for one or two people) dates from 1730.

The solid walnut bed is a particularly beautifully created piece of furniture, a donation from the considerable collection of Dr. Elisabeth Sprüngli-Halter, who always held the bailiff's house in high esteem because of its well-preserved originality.

A magnificent Baroque cabinet from around 1730 is a rare example of Glarus furniture making, painted with a special technique in brown tones. The travel chest from Graubünden dates back to 1688, of course also in its original condition. On the walls there are also old porcelain plates.

The bailiff's room offers a unique view of one of the most famous Swiss mountains, the Tödi. Peter Blumer's view of the Tödi is the most beautiful from the Glarus Valley.

The yellow bathroom in the perfect and genuine Belle Époque style, second floor below, belongs to this room. A royal bathroom that amazes.

KNIGHT
A refined yet cosy atmosphere

2 persons | 2 single beds
Private bathroom

This room is perhaps the place where a lady can meet the cavalier of her dreams. The almost life-size portrait of a nobleman from Paris shows him around 1580. At that time, the knight held an extremely honorable and responsible position in the city government of Paris.

Perhaps you can meet this cavalier on the third floor or during a walk in the secluded English Garden behind the bailiff's house between the old oak and maple trees.

The room exudes a touch of French aristocracy on the one hand and a cosy, rural atmosphere on the other with furniture from around 1890, which at the time was delivered by train from a furniture factory directly from Neuchâtel to Nidfurn (the original labels are still stuck to the bedstead).

The white walls and the precious French curtains form the framework for a selected collection of Christmas plates from Denmark, where a side branch of the Blumers still lives today. Since 1908 until today, a plate with a new design has been released every year. Each copy is hand-painted and is only fired in the specific year. A picture on the wall shows a young scion of the Blumers around 1760, of course in its original condition.

The connecting door leads directly to the Belle Époque-style bathroom. The generosity of the room makes you indulge in the luxurious dream of that era, the time when the first bathrooms were built. This after previously only using the beautiful washbasins with the ornate bowls and jugs.

Have you met the noble knight? – If not, you are welcome to visit us again.

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The hotel in the museum
Time travel in a late medieval manor house. Spend the night in a private and noble ambience. Truly historic and stylishly individually furnished guest rooms. Panoramic view of the Glarus Grosstal.

The imposing manor house, which is more than 400 years old, is now a historic adventure hotel with four romantic and differently furnished rooms. The ensemble also includes a large museum, where you can experience the living culture of yesteryear on six floors. The magnificent view of the Tödi crowns every stay. The Landvoghthaus is personally run by the owners. Non-smoking house.

Centuries of history
The bailiff's house in Nidfurn in its present form dates back to around 1600, although older cellars and probably also an existing building were still in use at that time. However, the history of today's building still offers some unsolved mysteries. It is known that a wealthy ancestor of the patrician Blumer family decided to build a stately residence in Nidfurn in the second half of the 16th century. The house was given its present form by bailiff Peter Blumer (1587-1669). He had two more floors added to an existing residential building and provided with richly furnished parlours and two halls in the attic. In the symmetrical floor plan, there are several magnificently designed parlours on both sides of a wide central aisle with large room heights, richly decorated ceilings and Baroque wall panelling as well as beautiful late Gothic window niches. In addition to the oldest late Gothic decorative elements, room furnishings from the Renaissance and Baroque periods were added during the later expansion.

The stately and, for a long time, tallest house in the Glarus region was inhabited by Peter Blumer's descendants themselves until the tenth generation. The building is therefore considered one of the few examples of late medieval residential buildings in Switzerland that has been largely preserved in its original condition. The current owners have restored the house with meticulous care and supplemented it with contemporary fixtures in a few places, such as in the kitchen. Large parts of the house are now open to the public as a lively residential museum.