The Alpen Lodge provides sleeping rooms with shared spaces in Helvetia, WV. The Alpen Lodge is located in the Kultur Haus Helvetia, the building which also houses the General Store, Post Office, and Mask Museum. One downstairs room and five upstairs rooms are currently available. While the upstairs sleeping rooms need little restoration, there is only one bathroom for six sleeping rooms. As funding becomes available, the area will be converted to four corner sleeping rooms, each with a private bath.

Kultur Haus Helvetia is both a building and an organization serving the Helvetia community and its visitors. Food, beverages, ice, household items, ice cream, maple syrup, T-shirts, and much more. Fasnacht masks are displayed throughout the General Store and Alpen Lodge. We are in the process of collecting information on these. One first floor room with a private bath and 4 upstairs bedrooms with a shared bath are now available.

Kultur Haus Helvetia is both a building and an organization serving the Helvetia community and its visitors. Food, beverages, ice, household items, ice cream, maple syrup, T-shirts, and much more. Fasnacht masks are displayed throughout the General Store and Alpen Lodge. We are in the process of collecting information on these. One first floor room with a private bath and 4 upstairs bedrooms with a shared bath are now available.

Please consider a gift to the Old -Time Herald. For mail in donations click here. Volume 14, Number 8. Follow links below for excerpts. Paying Tribute to Those Who Gave Us Their Homes and Their Music.

Parcel Mailing with Delivery Confirmation,. Signature Confirmation, and Insurance. Priority Mail with All Sizes of Free Mailing.

Here, Mike and Beth Richter boil thousands of gallons of maple sap every season into precious maple syrup, maple sugar, maple candy, and that very rare delicacy, maple cream.

The Helvetia Fasnacht Mask Museum preserves the history and artifacts of Fasnacht. An end-of-winter celebration similar to Mardi Gras. At Fasnacht, participants wear masks to scare away Old Man Winter who is burned on a bonfire at midnight after a candlelight parade and square dance. Fasnacht celebrations are common in Switzerland but rare in the United States. All masks are donations and we owe a tremendous.