Bürgenstock Resort Lake Lucerne, Mountain resort complex on Lake Lucerne, Switzerland.
Bürgenstock Resort is a car-free hotel and tourism complex of 30 buildings on the Bürgenberg ridge above Lake Lucerne, mostly in Stansstad's Obbürgen district, with many structures on Ennetbürgen land south of the crest. It holds three hotels of 3 to 5 stars superior, 360 rooms and suites, 17 residences, two spas, a 2,200 m² conference centre for up to 600 people and twelve restaurants, bars and lounges. The cream-faced Grand Hotel has a dark mansard roof with dormer windows and black balconies above a stone terrace.
The property began in 1873 with a major hotel building and grew into a popular Alpine resort destination. A turning point came in 1888 when one of Switzerland's early rack railways was constructed to carry guests up the mountainside.
The name Bürgenstock replaced the old Alpine pasture name Alp Tritt shortly before the first hotel opened in 1873, and became a trademark of Swiss tourism. The resort chapel, built in 1892, still stands among the hotels. Guests have included Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn, Sean Connery, Jimmy Carter and Henry Kissinger.
Visitors reach the property by ferry across the lake followed by the rack railway up the mountain. The route is well marked and the journey itself provides first impressions of the surroundings.
The resort's Hammetschwand lift, completed in 1905, rises on the south side of the Bürgenberg; the resort also keeps a protected group of post-war buildings, among them the Grand Hotel and the Palace Hotel, retained under a conservation plan drawn up for the 2014 rebuilding.
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