Nowadays St. Gallen means luxurious lace, high-quality fabric, inspiring fashion. International top designers from leading labels go in and out of St. Gallen to order high-quality textiles. Fashion from St. Gallen bewitches on the most important catwalks in the world. The St. Gallen textile industry has a long tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages and blossomed at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Einstein is closely connected to the textile industry. Its classic five-storey building was built in 1830 by the widow of the textile processor Jacob Allgäuer. The innovative business woman ran a starching business within it. Later the ground floor housed a soup kitchen. After several changes of hands, Isaak David Einstein acquired the building and produced his embroidery there. In 1978 the St. Gallen textile manufacturer
Max Kriemler bought the property, renovated it completely and converted it into the four-star Hotel Einstein which was opened in 1983. 20 years later the hotel's success story is continuing. Max Kriemler decided to extend the existing Einstein into the next building to create 48 new luxurious hotel rooms. The Einstein Hotel thus has over 113 rooms today, a gourmet restaurant with a view over the roofs of the old town and an elegant hotel bar in an English style. Various seminar and banqueting rooms complete what's on offer.
