Family Fritsch
This place has been owned by the Fritsch family since 1898. Although Resi and Franz Fritsch handed over the hotel to their son Thomas many years ago, they are still the good spirits of the hotel.
Thomas Fritsch has been running the hotel since 1998, while his wife, Diana Sicher-Fritsch, manages the spa and Mental Health Center. His sister Beate is the sommelier and runs the restaurant. His brother Franz is the head chef.
Thomas Fritsch & Diana Sicher-Fritsch
Host / expert in easy living
Thomas is easy to recognize. His gaze is always visionary. Even as a young boy, he helped in his parents’ business and later took over the management. A role that suits him. He is always there for his siblings, not just in the business. His biggest management challenge are his two children. “Anyone who has children has received a natural employee motivation and leadership course!” That’s his motto.
Always looking for new ways, he had the idea to create a hotel for people who “want to live their own life”. Everyone is different. Everyone has the right to live their own life, to know their own wishes and to fulfill them as much as possible. He has turned this idea into a concept and realized it with the “Fritsch am Berg”.
Together with his wife Diana he developed the idea of a ****Mental-SPA hotel.
Diana is also easily recognizable. Red and black are her favorite colors. Her style combines fire and water.
Humming to herself, radiant, with a swaying walk, she goes through life and through the hotel. She is a mental health coach & consultant. The Mental Center is her oasis in the hotel. Her home is her haven of peace with Thomas. The couple and their children Lukas and Magdalena feel at home here, surrounded by the whole family.
“Here you can see the world from above. The problems seem smaller from here, the world seems bigger and wider. I have the mountain behind me – for peace and strength. I have the lake in view – for openness and foresight.”
Diana Sicher-Fritsch
Beate Fritsch
Restaurant manager, sommelier
At least one moose or deer can be found in some shape or form in Beate’s vicinity. Whether in a restaurant or at home – her passion is decorating with love. Her vocation is to take care of people.
Beate often recognizes wishes before they have been expressed and sometimes before they have even been thought of. Her guests are close to her heart and she greets some of them quite effusively with her cheerful manner.
She tends towards perfection when it comes to creating a cozy, feel-good place for guests in the restaurant. She is creative when it comes to decorating.
Wine is Beate’s great love. There is a whole palette of scents and colors to read, taste and smell. And Beate takes the time to experience this. She is selects new wines for her guests. Some bottles are real hunting trophies. But they are all well guarded and stored by her.
If you don’t find Beate in the restaurant, she is somewhere feeding calves with milk bottles or immersed in the world of books.
„My temperament is both a blessing and a curse“, she says about herself. Just now she was standing in the garage, painting the walls a soft green. Beate is always there. And she’s everywhere!
Franz Fritsch
Head chef
Wherever Franz is, either pots and pans or his twins are clattering. Sometimes all together. Anna and Lea love their father very much. Probably because he is young at heart. Franz is the artist of the family.
Franz loves the kitchen. He can create compositions of different ingredients, spices and flavors in his head. And he creatively turns them into reality – to the delight of his guests. In this way, he never ceases to surprise, sometimes even himself.
The origin of the products used in the kitchen is important to him. Having grown up with his own animals, it is important to him to select and prepare food with care and respect. Flavor enhancers have no place in his kitchen. Regional food is important to him. That is why you will always find traditional delicacies alongside new creations on his menus.
His motto is: „Nothing is more important than the moment!“
Resi & Franz Fritsch
The good spirits
Resi enters the room with a smile on her face. Her eyes wander around. She is very attentive. She sewed the curtains in the hotel herself. It takes yards of fabric, thread and a lot of love. Not just a love of detail, but also a love for people who will feel at home here.
Many guests know her personally. New people are always coming in and appreciate her friendly and humorous manner. Almost everyone in the area knows her. For some, she was the patient teacher at school.
Her love for children can be seen in her own four children Thomas, Claudia, Beate and Franz. Four grandchildren, Lukas, Magdalena, Anna & Lea, make her a happy grandmother who is needed everywhere.
After marrying Franz in 1971, she gave up teaching and devoted herself to her children and renting out guest rooms, eventually becoming the manager of the “Berger Stüberl”. She loves being around people. And people loved her company.
We fondly remember Franz as if he was still out on the “Bühl”, the meadow in front of the house, with his “Wieba”, as he lovingly called his cows. Often he would suddenly reappear shortly afterwards at the sawmill, in the forest or at the hotel. Just as he was always there in person, his spirit lives on. His family continues to farm in his spirit, as he passed on the idea of appreciating nature and life to his children.Resi & Franz laid the foundation for the “Fritsch am Berg”. They form the core of the hotel and enclose the area inside the hotel. Where we prepare everything for your well-being.
Fritsch am Berg: A history
In the 1950s, Maria Nenning-Fritsch, Franz Fritsch Sen.’s aunt, built the “Pension Buchenberg”. It was a cozy bed and breakfast.
In 1971, shortly after marrying Resi Köberle, Franz Fritsch bought the house from his aunt. They also rented out the 4 rooms on the second floor of the house.
Between 1972 and ’73, Resi and Franz built the new wing of the house with the help of a few friends and neighbors. From 1973, rooms were also rented out here. Now under the name “Bergpension Fritsch”.
The Buchenberg is a wonderful place with a fantastic view and so the large seminar room was completed in 1979, which became very popular.
In the meantime, the couple had been blessed with four children. Thomas, Claudia, Beate and Franz Jr. – the Fritsch family was complete!
Resi opened the “Bergerstüberl” in 1982. The “Alte Stube” served as the dining room and from 1985 the sun terrace with panoramic views over Lake Constance was the attraction of the house. Nowhere else is the view over Lake Constance so beautiful!
Thomas, the eldest son, trained as a chef at Restaurant Mangold in Lochau and took over the kitchen in 1994. The restaurant was extended in 1994. The “Stüberl” for smaller celebrations and the cozy “Stube” with the oriel table was added.
In 1994, Franz Jr. began an apprenticeship in the kitchen with his brother Thomas. His sisters Claudia and Beate also worked in service until 1999 and 2002 respectively.
The Fritsch family’s first grandchild was born in 1999. Lukas Leopold is the son of Thomas and his wife Diana, and he inherited their passions for cooking, reading and technology. Diana has been supporting Thomas in his office and reception duties since 2001. In 2004, the couple’s second child, Magdalena Katharina, was born.
The sun terrace was extended for the first time in 2005 and again in 2010. The entrance area was also redesigned during this time.
In August 2011, twins Anna and Lea were born, adding two new family members to their parents Franz Jr. and Monique, as well as the whole Fritsch family.
The major renovation work began in October 2013. The old wing of the house had to go. The new wing, built by Resi and Franz, forms the core of the new “Fritsch am Berg” hotel.
On July 12, 2014, the time had come. The ****MentalSpa-Hotel Fritsch am Berg opened its doors and has been inviting guests to relax, enjoy and simply feel good ever since!