Hotel Erica

They benefited - as it says in undated hotel brochures - from the "pure and fragrant mountain air" "away from the road and dust". Later, the hotel also established itself as a winter sports hotel with a ski jumping hill nearby and, from 1951, the first ski lift in northwestern Switzerland, built by Emil Müller Junior. The son of the hotel's founder went down in history as a film-maker who captured the events in and around Langenbruck with an eight-millimetre camera.

In 1965, the house underwent a modernisation. An extension on the east side created space for a new entrance area and the lift, which still reliably transports guests and luggage today. At the same time, some of the rooms received running water. Even though the Erica has kept up with the times, much has remained the same. In the BIB building inventory, historian Claudio Affolter describes the building as "the only hotel building from the heyday of the spa town of Langenbruck". The imposing spa house and the numerous guesthouses have long been history.

In terms of style, the "Erica" can be classified between neo-baroque and art nouveau. The building has a romantic design with a mansard hipped roof, central risalit and tail gable, oriel, terrace and cross gable. Inside, the simple blue tiled „Kachelofen“ and the „Office“ with its dining lift from 1950 catch the eye. The pitch pine floor in the dining room has also seen a lot. Where the doors used to open punctually for the spa guests' evening meal and close again immediately, hikers and seminar guests now dine.