Wolfsberg Centre

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Wolfsberg: The exclusive platform
Wolfsberg is available for UBS as well as other corporations and institutions, and focuses on learning, sharing experiences, and strategy and leadership discussions among managers and experts. For UBS, Wolfsberg plays an important role in the culture and communications of our globally active corporation.

Some UBS Briefings, UBS Forums Leadership and Health, UBS Arts Forums and UBS Think Tanks as well as Wolfsberg business and cultural events are also open to the public. They offer an exclusive platform for sharing ideas and experiences, as well as for networking across all borders. These activities are complemented by international residency programmes for scholars, executives and artists.

Wolfsberg: The Conference Centre
Wolfsberg offers 125 rooms, conference rooms with state-of-the-art equipment, an auditorium for larger-scale events and generously proportioned sports facilities with an indoor pool, sauna, sports hall and gym as well as exquisite cuisine. Besides comfortably furnished guest rooms, the stylishly converted castle has space for events.

Wolfsberg: Steeped in tradition
The name Wolfsberg derives from the man who built the castle, Wolf Walter von Gryffenberg. In about 1576 he erected a grand residence with its own farm in a prominent position above Lake Constance. In 1732 the main building was completely rebuilt in the baroque style by Squire Johannes Zollikofer von Altenklingen, who used it from then on as a summer residence.

At the turn of the 19th century, the then owner, Baron Jean Jacques von Högger, erected what is now the Parquin House as a place for his guests to stay. Under Charles Parquin, a former Bonapartist who was close to the court of ex-Queen Hortense in residence at the neighbouring Castle of Arenenberg, Wolfsberg was converted into the first guesthouse in the Canton of Thurgau. The visitor's books bear witness to the illustrious guests of the time, who included Chateaubriand, Alexandre Dumas, Madame Récamier and Franz Liszt.

UBS acquired the estate in 1970 and converted it into a conference, meeting and communications platform for the globally active corporation. The newly constructed centre and entirely renovated historic buildings went into operation in 1975. Since 2008, Wolfsberg has also had a new hotel wing, which is characterised by transparency and sleek lines, and is perfectly integrated in the landscape.