Hotel Restaurant Baseltor

Well-known families from Solothurn's upper class, such as Sury, Wagner and von Roll, succeeded each other as owners of the house over the course of two centuries. The building has always been classically divided into a front and a rear house, separated by an inner courtyard, where a private fountain stood from 1676. Close to the rear building, probably on the site of today's house at Riedholzplatz 8, there was a barn that belonged to the estate. In 1813, the property, which is located on the long side of the baroque St. Ursen Cathedral, was acquired by St. Ursen Abbey and served as a residence for the canons until the abolition of the abbey in 1874. The purchase of the house by the wine merchant Johan Zeltner in the same year and the opening of the ‘Wirtschaft zum Baseltor’ laid the foundations for the inn. In 1991, the Baseltor co-operative, which until then had been running the Löwen restaurant in Solothurn, moved into the building, thus opening a new chapter. With the architect Gérard Staub, the co-operative extensively renovated the building with great respect for the historical substance and opened the first hotel rooms. Over the years, the range of rooms has been steadily expanded and extended to neighbouring buildings, so that today 17 rooms in four different buildings are on offer. The co-operative not only grew in the ‘mother house’ but was also able to take over other businesses in Solothurn. These include the Restaurant Bar Solheure, the fine dining Restaurant Salzhaus, the Hotel Restaurant La Couronne and the Café Bar Viktor. All businesses are individually managed and contribute to a lively city.