29 Jan Hotell Rättviksgården
Hotell Rattviksgarden, photo from the personal collection of Gunnel Larsen
The Hotell Rättviksgården is another little hotel where the American internees in Rättvik were housed during 1944. It was located downtown right next to the Turristhemmet.
I don’t know much about this hotel and hope my readers can enlighten me. You can see a postcard in color at this site (along with many other beautiful Sweden scenes.) It is marked 1951, and historian Karen Cline reports that it was indeed there in 1953. I’m not sure when it was torn down … perhaps at the same time as the Turristhemmet next door.
Provided by Karen B. Cline, from the album of internee Robert Schauseil. The photo, labeled “Taking back the radios” was taken in front of what we now know is the Hotell Rattviksgarden. 1944.
As you can see if you go to the site with the postcards this hotel was painted “Falu Red.”
On flickr I found an excellent photograph marked “Turisthemmet” but which is actually the Hotell Rättviksgården. The owner of the photograph states that his Dad’s crew stayed there during the summer of 1944. If you examine this picture you can see right behind the red hotel the white Turristhemmet with the sign over the door.
Thanks again to Helen Engblom, Gunnel Larsen and Karen Cline for your help on the Rättvik hotels!
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