Villa Boveri runs mainly as a seminar house, with around 15 meeting and event rooms for groups of 8 to 100, and also hosts private and company celebrations, cultural evenings and weddings. The villa stands at Ländliweg 5 in Baden, in the Swiss canton of Aargau, inside a large park, and is run by the Stiftung Villa Boveri.
Seminars and company events
Most rooms are sized for working groups. Limmat takes 20, Lägern and the Kreativraum 16 each, and Baldegg, Jura, Clubzimmer, Mahagonizimmer and Musikzimmer 12 each. The smallest rooms, Rüsler and Herrenzimmer, seat 8, which suits a board meeting or a coaching session. The Kreativraum, under the roof, has exposed beams and its own lighting effects for workshops. For a full plenary, the Gartensaal on the ground floor seats 100. Both historic and modern rooms are available, and the rooms are fitted with current technology. A company can take several rooms at once and run a plenary with breakouts in the same house.
Weddings and receptions
The villa is an official civil wedding venue of the Baden registry district, so the ceremony and the reception can take place in one location. Free ceremonies are also possible. Celebrations use the ground floor, the terrace, the park and the Gartensaal, and the team helps plan the menu. Add-on services are grouped in an offer called Angebot PLUS.
Rooms and capacities
On the ground floor, the Gartensaal measures 80 m² and seats 100, the Esszimmer measures 52 m² and seats 26 for a meal, the Musikzimmer measures 42 m² and seats 12, and the Lesezimmer measures 25 m² and seats 10. Meeting rooms include Limmat (65 m², 20 seats), Lägern (60 m², 16), Kreativraum (102 m², 16), Baldegg (43 m², 12), Jura (41 m², 12), Clubzimmer (45 m², 12), Mahagonizimmer (35 m², 12), Billardzimmer (34 m², 10), Rüsler (26 m², 8) and Herrenzimmer (26 m², 8). The Badehausterrasse is an outdoor terrace for 12.
Catering
Catering comes from the villa's own kitchen. Seminar days include morning and afternoon breaks with coffee, tea, pastries and fruit, mineral water in the room, and a three-course lunch or a buffet with soft drinks and coffee. The menu follows the season, and the kitchen adapts dishes for allergies and intolerances.
History and setting
Walter Boveri, who founded Brown, Boveri & Cie. in Baden with Charles E. L. Brown in 1891, had the villa built between 1896 and 1898 to plans by the Baden-born architect Karl Moser. The house is Neo-Gothic and set in an English-style park with large beech and linden trees. In 1943 BBC bought the villa and its garden and placed them in a welfare foundation for its employees, who received the house as a clubhouse in October of that year. The villa is listed as a Swiss cultural property of national significance.
Getting there
Baden is on the main rail line between Zurich and Basel, and Zurich Airport is about half an hour away by road or train. The villa is within walking distance of Baden station, which helps for groups traveling by rail.
