Programme
Friday, 31 May 2024
5.15 pm Welcome aperitif Hotel Kurhaus Grimmialp
6.30 pm Dinner Hotel Kurhaus Grimmialp
8 pm «Why do we need biodiversity and how does diversity get onto our plates?» Lecture by Dominik Füglistaller, lecturer in agroecology and resource-conserving land use at Bern University of Applied Sciences for Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Zollikofen
Saturday, 1 June 2024
8.30 am Breakfast at Hotel Kurhaus Grimmialp
9.30 am Visit to a farm in the Diemtigtal
Topic: Biodiversity on the farm. A farmer explains the tension between biodiversity and food production.
12.30 pm Lunch at the Hotel Kurhaus Grimmialp
Afternoon at leisure:
Hike / excursion on the Grimmialp and / or in the Wiriehorn region.
Hike on the Albert Schweitzer Trail
6.30 pm Dinner at the Hotel Kurhaus Grimmialp
8 pm Biodiversity of Switzerland - The meaning of diversity Film contribution from the series «Netznatur» by Andreas Moser, biologist, animal filmmaker and television presenter
Sunday, 2 June 2024
8.30 am Breakfast at the Hotel Kurhaus Grimmialp
10 am Church service with Rev. Thomas Bornhauser, Board of Trustees of the Albert Schweitzer Foundation in the Schwenden Chapel
11 am Concert by the Erlenbach-Wimmis-Reutigen Youth Music
12.15 pm Lunch at Hotel Kurhaus Grimmialp and conclusion of the Grimmialp Days
Good to know
Eligibility
for Groups
for individual guests
Suitable for the Elderly
Directions & Parking facilities
Motorway A6 Bern direction Zweisimmen, 1 km after the Simmenfluh tunnel turn left direction to Diemtigtal. Follow the Diemtigtalstrasse into the valley for 18 km in the direction of Grimmialp, Schwenden. After the old Schwenden schoolhouse, turn left after 250 m to the Kurhaus Grimmialp hotel.
Train, bus & co.:
By train to Oey-Diemtigen station. Continue by PostBus to the stop «Schwenden i.D., Winteregg». You reach the Kurhaus Grimmialp hotel by a short walk.
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Participation in the individual parts of the programme is generally free of charge and possible without registration. (Except Saturday morning excursion) Registration is required for hotel accommodation (full board) and for individual meals (lunch Fr. 20, evening Fr. 25 (excluding drinks)).
Saturday: Bus journey for excursion Fr. 15
Contact point: Hotel Kurhaus Grimmialp, phone 033 684 80 00 |info@kurhaus-grimmialp.ch | kurhaus-grimmialp.ch
Public transport travellers: Post bus from Oey-Diemtigen railway station to Winteregg station; Footpath to Hotel Kurhaus Grimmialp: 5 min.
Sunday return journey: Bus 2.54 pm Later courses: 3.42 pm and 5.48 pm
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