All season
Karin Bittel
Mühlebachstrasse 161
3995 Mühlebach
Mobile +41 78 708 08 85
www.mountainbliss.ch
Landschaftspark Binntal - After extensive renovations, the Niederwald train station building became the Station Ritz on December 13th of 2019.
This new offer includes a bistro, an information point, a shop selling local products and changing rooms for hikers and cross-country skiers. Also worth seeing are the exhibitions on the upper floors of Caesar Ritz and others painters and artists.
In addition to the permanent exhibition on the life and work of Caesar Ritz (1850-1918) and his wife Marie-Louise Ritz-Beck (1868-1961), the Station Ritz also hots temporary exhibitions, in which you can discover new presentations on art and culture around Niederwald and the valley of Goms. A brochure is also available. The exhibition can be visited daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (street-side entrance to the museum) A guided tour is available by appointment.
Caesar Ritz was born in 1850 in Niederwald. The youngest of 13 children, the farmer became a hotel manager and opened luxury restaurants and hotels in Paris, Rome and London. This hotelier seemed to have an exceptional talent for satisfying his guests and intuitively recognising their needs for comfort. His hotels were the first in the world to be equipped with bathtubs, electric lighting, phone and sophisticated furnishings.
After several years of depression, he died in 1918. He was buried in his hometown of Niederwald. A statue of Caesar Ritz was erected there in his honor.
All season
From 1 December 2022, Karin Bittel and her team will be running the Bistro at the Ritz Station.
The winter menu includes homemade soups and sweets. Regional products will also be available for purchase.
There are cloakrooms and showers especially for cross-country skiers. Cross-country ski passes can also be purchased at the station bistro.
From Mühlebach, you first descend below the road towards Steinhaus. Short sections also need to be covered on the road. Near Steinhaus, a bridge is crossed, and from there, the journey continues to Niederwald.
