| Hotel Widder | |
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Pictured in 2010 | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Hotel |
| Location | Rennweg 7 Zurich, Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 47°22′21″N8°32′23″E / 47.372525°N 8.539817°E /47.372525; 8.539817 |
| Opened | 1995 (31 years ago) (1995) |
| Owner | The Living Circle |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 49 |
| Website | |
| www | |
TheHotel Widder is a hotel and restaurant inZurich, Switzerland. Established in 1995,[1] it is located onRennweg, in Niederdorf, in the city'sAltstadt district. The hotel's 49 rooms are spread across nine medievaltownhouses,[2] the oldest of which dates to the 13th century.[3]Widder is German forram, with the name being chosen for the hotel because one of the townhouses was theguildhouse for a master butcher.[4]
In 2003, when the hotel had its original eight townhouses and 42 rooms,[5][6] it was owned by Swiss bankUBS.[7] UBS sold the property to insurance companySwiss Life in 2018,[8][9] while the hotel business is part of The Living Circle group, which is based in Zurich's Bleicherweg.[10]
The hotel underwent a large renovation in 2009[4] and in 2016, the latter to a design by architect Tilla Theus.[8]
Its two restaurants are named Boucherie AuGust and the Widder Restaurant.[2]