• The “Schatzalp Sanatorium” was built between 1898 and 1900 on the initiative of the Dutchman Willem Jan Holsboer, who immigrated to Davos.

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• The house, designed as a luxury sanatorium, was the most advanced sanatorium in the region. The construction of the main building was extremely avant-garde as one of the first reinforced concrete buildings ever.

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• The building functioned as a health resort for almost fifty years. According to the opinion of the time, the sunny location as well as the good Alpine air and cleanliness were supposed to represent an ideal climate for curing consumption. The building was therefore facing south and all rooms had balconies for patients to lie down on.

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• When the first effective drugs against the tuberculosis bacterium came onto the market at the end of the 1940s, sanatoriums for lung patients became unnecessary.

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• In 1954, the spa on Schatzalp was finally converted into a hotel.