Chronicle of the Hotel Wörndlhof
Berchtesgaden-Ramsau, Bavaria
Chronicle
Hotel Wörndlhof in Berchtesgaden-Ramsau, Bavaria
The Wörndlhof inn in Ramsau, Bavaria, is the oldest building on Lake Hintersee alongside the Kainzierlhof and was first mentioned in 1461 as Wörndllehen. In the hallway, you can admire individual exposed original quarry stones used to build our house back then.
Until the 20th century, our house was a traditional farm. August Bartels, a native of Westphalia, visited his war comrade Isidor Weiß in the 1920s, whose family were the owners of the Hotel Post (now CVJM/Gästehaus Hintersee) and the former Posthof (formerly Wörndllehen/now Wörndlhof). In 1931, he married Marerl, his comrade’s sister, and thus came into possession of the Wörndlhof.
Wolfgang, the youngest son of August Bartels, won the bronze medal in the downhill event at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, behind Egon Zimmermann of Austria and Leo Lacroix of France. In 1967, he and his wife Margit took over the Wörndlhof inn.
Wolfgang remained loyal to skiing as a coach, achieving his greatest success as downhill coach to ‘Gold-Rosi’ Rosi Mittermaier at the 1976 Olympic Games, again in Innsbruck. He resigned from his coaching position in 1979 to devote himself fully to his wife, his two children and the guests at the Wörndlhof in Ramsau, which he did with dedication.
Wolfgang Jr. also had his father’s skiing genes in his legs and was a member of the German Ski Association’s junior national team in the mid-1990s. Unfortunately, due to various injuries, he had to end his active racing career early. He then trained as a hotel manager at the Sporthotel Achental (now Golf Resort Achental) in Grassau am Chiemsee, before moving to Salzburg, where he spent five years at the Sheraton Salzburg, among other things as head concierge. In 2008, following the untimely death of his father, the junior took over the Wörndlhof after successfully completing a two-year further training course at the Steigenberger Academy in Bad Reichenhall to become a hotel manager and hotel master. In 2012, he married his wife Barbara, who comes from Styria. She, in turn, comes from a well-known folk music family there, the Zwanzleitner family. The birth of their daughter Emma sweetened their happiness in the same year, and daughter Robin Sophia completed the family in 2016.
Since then, the two of them have been taking care of the well-being of guests at the Hotel-Gasthof Wörndlhof – Das Refugium am Hintersee in Ramsau in the third generation.
In 2020, the Wörndlhof will be expanded to include ‘Das Refugium’. The old stable building from earlier times was demolished in March 2019 to create new space for our guests to feel at home. A new building with 6 comfortable double rooms/suites, 30-60 square metres with ‘in-room wellness’. Bright, spacious rooms in Alpine style with large rain showers, in-room infrared cabins and a fantastic mountain view await you from July 2020! The ‘exchange’/new construction of the car park and road in 2022 ultimately gave the Wörndlhof a completely new look and an even greater feeling of well-being.
