Ospizio Bernina

Highest point of the UNESCO World Heritage route of the Rhaetian Railway at 2'053 m above sea level.
The buildings at the Bernina Pass bear witness to the pioneering era of railway construction and the effort it took—and still takes—to operate a railway in high alpine terrain.

"The Bernina Railway makes an extensive tourist area of outstanding scenic significance more accessible, which had already managed to attract and captivate a steadily growing number of travelers and tourists for years—even during the arduous postal and cart traffic along the long valley and alpine roads and the Bernina road completed in 1865," wrote an engineer in 1912, reflecting on the construction of the Bernina line.

And the new construction was well received. The major buildings along the line, however, were only built later. The station building and mountain inn Bernina-Hospiz were created around 1925 by expanding a predecessor structure. Architect Nicolaus Hartmann Jr. designed a stone building at an altitude of 2'253 meters above sea level, which incorporates neoclassical elements such as the triangular pediment, yet through its rough stone construction remains true to the character of the Bernina Pass—both barren and majestic. Nicolaus Hartmann Jr. also designed the covered turntable, which is connected to the converter station from 1910 and the residential building from 1912.