Hotel Victoria-Jungfrau, Palace hotel in Interlaken, Switzerland
The Victoria-Jungfrau Grand Hotel & Spa is a five-star hotel on the Höheweg in Interlaken, made of a west wing (the former Hotel Victoria, Höheweg 41) and an east wing (the former Hotel Jungfrau, Höheweg 47) joined in 1899 by a central block crowned with a dome. It has 216 rooms, 106 of them suites and junior suites, and looks across the Höhematte park to the Jungfrau massif.
Eduard Ruchti bought the Pension Victoria, an old doctor's house on the Höheweg, in 1856 and had Jakob Friedrich Studer and Horace Edouard Davinet build a new house that opened in 1865 after nine months of construction. In 1895 he turned the firm into a joint-stock company, which bought the neighbouring Hotel Jungfrau, built by Davinet in 1869; a domed central wing joined the two in 1899. The tower was rebuilt after a fire in 1906.
The hotel's name recalls Queen Victoria, chosen because of the many English visitors to Interlaken in the 1860s. Its restaurants include Radius by Stefan Beer, which holds 17 Gault-Millau points, a Michelin star and a green Michelin star, alongside the Italian Sapori and the Brasserie La Terrasse. The Victoria-Bar has a terrace and a fumoir.
The hotel stands on the Höheweg, Interlaken's main promenade, with the West Wing at Höheweg 41 and the East Wing at Höheweg 47; the two are joined by a domed central wing. The 5,500-square-metre spa, opened in 1991 and enlarged in 2003, holds a fitness studio and a pool. The building is wheelchair accessible.
On 1 September 1906, Russian medical student Tatiana Leonteva shot the French businessman Charles Müller in the hotel's dining room, mistaking him for Interior Minister Pyotr Durnovo in revenge for the 1905 Bloody Sunday in St Petersburg. Convicted in 1907, she received only four years for diminished responsibility.
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