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Schatzalp is a skiing resort and recreation area in Davos, Switzerland. It includes the Art Nouveau style Berghotel Schatzalp, a former sanitorium, which opened as a hotel in 1954.

History

Since 2008, the path from the Waldsanatorium (now Waldhotel Davos), about 2 kilometers away, up to the Schatzalp has been called the Thomas Mann path. The writer is said to have often used the path to visit his wife Katia Mann, who repeatedly stayed in the Waldsanatorium and on the Schatzalp from 1912 onwards to take the cure for an alleged case of tuberculosis. Ten plaques with texts placed along the path commemorate Mann.[3] Another prominent guest of the Schatzalp was the author Arthur Conan Doyle.

The ski lifts above Schatzalp were all closed in 2002. But since December 2009 skiing is possible again on Schatzalp/Strela - the first decelerated skiing area was created. One chairlift and one ski lift are in operation again. However, the second ski lift and the connecting lift to Parsenn remain closed Since about 2004, architects Herzog & de Meuron have been planning a 105-meter-high, 200-million-franc apartment tower right next to the Schatzalp mountain hotel. The tower was to finance the modernization of the hotel and ski resort. In 2004, the people of Davos approved the rezoning for this project in a referendum. However, the implementation of the plans has become questionable as a result of the second-home initiative adopted in 2012 (i.e. A municipality should not have more than 20 percent second homes.[4])[5] and thus the building project has been persistently silent.

Schatzalp in the movies

Time and again, the Schatzalp has served as a backdrop for film shoots. In 2005, the sanatorium became the setting for the reality TV series Das Internat - Schule wie vor 50 Jahren. In the summer of 2014, the film Youth - La Giovinezza (German title: Ewige Jugend)' by Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino was filmed there.[6] For the film Mal de pierres, released in 2016, scenes with leading actress Marion Cotillard were shot on the Schatzalp in 2015, although it is not the location of the action.[7