History & Philosophy

Company mission statement

We create and offer a space that inspires our guests, in which they feel as happy and content as they do at home.

We will consistently build on important fundamental values:

1. Our personality and that of our staff should always be authentic.  Primarily to develop quality in handling guests.
2. Our environment is on loan from our children.  “It is the biblical vocation with which we work and govern”.
3. Professional competence is the basis of our jobs and humanity and honest friendliness is the basis of our success.
4. The hotel is the basis of our wealth – family is the basis of our life.

In the intermeding time, the heavy weight of business in the winter will remain where we build up for the summer season.  In the future, we will bind our staff to the hotel even more strongly: with opportunities for further training and through having appropriate places to live.  For the people who “work” it, the Theodul should be a means of subsistence, a job and an opportunity for self fulfilment; above all, they must be happy.

The History

In 1909, Sebastian Walch, the initiator and builder of the Flexenstrasse, sold the large estate to his nephew, Martin, and wondered out into the Kloster valley as he saw no future in the town for the family.  Martin bequeathed it to his son, Gotthard.  In 1921, Gotthard married Filomena Walch and passed away in 1929.  He left 4 sons behind: Martin, Vinzenz, Wilhelm and Josef.  With the arrival of tourism, the building blocks of the courtyard were built.

Together with his wife, Ruth, Josef built Haus Wallis in 1952, Hotel Theodul in 1968 and the “Knappaboda” in 1980.  In 1986, Josef and his son, Dietmar together took over the “Theodul” with his wife, Matina.

In the following years, the hotel was redeveloped, renovated and several extensions were built.

In 1994, the Theodul was awarded 4 stars.

In 2004, an underground extension with new sauna facility was built.