Das Kranzbach

An English country house a young British aristocrat built under the Wetterstein, today a four-season wellness retreat.

Four-star · From $600 per nightAny mandatory hotel fees are shown before you confirm.

Elmau & Garmisch-Partenkirchen · Bavarian Alps

A sense of the place

Das Kranzbach — pool — Das Kranzbach's infinity pools in evening sun: two pools on a stone and timber terrace with white loungers and furled orange parasols, the meadow scattered with loungers, spruce forest, and the gabled main house at upper right with sun flare; nobody in frame — © Das Kranzbach

Das Kranzbach — spa — A relaxation room in Das Kranzbach's spa: white daybeds with burgundy cushions and wooden loungers before floor-to-ceiling larch-framed windows onto a spruce forest, a palm in the corner; nobody in frame — © Das Kranzbach

Das Kranzbach — aerial view — Dawn aerial over the Kranzbach valley, forest and Wetterstein peaks — © Das Kranzbach

Das Kranzbach — garden — The wildflower meadow at Das Kranzbach in summer: yellow arnica and grasses in the foreground, the timber-and-glass wing at the left, furled red parasols, tall spruces and the Wetterstein peaks in haze; nobody in frame — © Das Kranzbach

Why it's in the collection

Because the spa is the crown jewel and wellness is taken more seriously here than almost anywhere in the Alps — five pools where an après-ski soak would do — inside an English manor that has no business standing under these peaks, and is all the better for it.

In the Kranzbach valley near Elmau, under the Wetterstein; independent house.
Five pools and six saunas and steam baths; the manor's mod rooms under clusters of hanging spherical lamps and the newer wood-and-glass annex; gourmet breakfast, lunch buffet, afternoon tea and cakes and a five-course dinner on the house; treatments for expecting parents.
One of Bavaria's great architectural anomalies: an English country house in the Bavarian Alps.
Two MICHELIN Keys in the 2025 selection; holds four-star standing.

Rooms at Das Kranzbach

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Junior Suite

484–700 sq ft · 45–65 m²

From $1,100 per night

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Torhaus Suite

1,076 sq ft · 100 m²

From $1,800 per night

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Suite im Gartenflügel

1,023 sq ft · 95 m²

From $1,800 per night

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Pförtnerhaus Suite

646 sq ft · 60 m²

From $1,800 per night

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From the hotel's website, checked Sep 28, 2026

Good to know

Address — In Kranzbach 1, 82493 Krün/Klais
Telephone — +498823928000

From the hotel's website, checked Sep 28, 2026

The neighborhood

Morning over Elmau & Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Elmau & Garmisch-Partenkirchen

The valleys under the Wetterstein and the Zugspitze, Germany's highest peak, about an hour and a half from Munich. Here lie the castle in the Elmau valley, the English manor at Kranzbach and the Olympic town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

The meadows and forest of the Kranzbach valley, at the door.
Klais station and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, about fifteen minutes.
Munich, about an hour; the airport, about an hour and a half.

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