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INTRODUCTION / WHO WE ARE
INDEX
INTRODUCTION / WHO WE ARE 2-3 PROMISE OF QUALITY 4 OVERVIEW OF OFFERS 5 MAP WITH ALL BUSINESSES 6-7 SALZBURG LAKE DISTRICT 8-9 FUSCHLSEE HOLIDAY REGION 10-11 CHEEKINESS PREVAILS! 12-13 WOLFGANGSEE 14-15 ONE STEP BACK 16-17 TENNENGAU 18-19 TENNENGEBIRGE REGION 20-21 HOCHKÖNIG 22-23 SALZBURGER SONNENTERRASSE 24-25 LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT 26-27 GASTEIN VALLEY 28-29 GROSSARL VALLEY 30-32 CATALOG OVERVIEW 33 TABULA RASA 34-35 SALZBURGER SPORTWELT 36-46 WE ARE FAMILY 47 PINZGAUER SAALACHTAL 48-49 HOHE TAUERN NATIONAL PARK 50-51 HOLIDAY REGION SALZBURGER LUNGAU 52-54 CONTACT, INFO, PICTOGRAMS 55
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CREDITS Publisher: “Urlaub am Bauernhof” regional association in SalzburgerLand, Schwarzstraße 19, 5020 Salzburg, association registration no. 106605184 Project supervision: Johannes Handlechner, Margret Appesbacher, Alexandra Gschwandtner, Anneliese Leitner.
Translation: Steve Micklethwaite, Jamie Overstreet.
Photos: “Urlaub am Bauernhof” association in SalzburgerLand, Bernd Suppan, Hans Huber, Daniel Gollner, Alfred Zeppetzauer. Realization and design: Gerlinde Schmidt Communications GmbH, www.gsc-werbung.at. Text: Stefan Heinisch. Print: Niederösterreichisches Presshaus Map: ARGE Kartographie
DEAR GUESTS,
whether Gertraud, Sonja, Maria or Rupert – we farmers love to show you what life on the farm is like. Read about our personal stories, country-style hospitality, and our true ambassadors of the rural world. 7 farmhouse stories exemplify our over 300 lodging providers and the people who guarantee your reenergizing farm holiday in Salzburger Land. Discover what makes life on a farm so special – a life in and with nature – a life determined by the passage of the four seasons. Find your own unique experience – at a farm in Salzburger Land, with the kind of personal contact that is bound to touch you.
Sincerely,
YOUR FARMING HOSTS The World in a Village
Gertraud Unger is happy. Although she never intended to become a farmer, today this former bank clerk fi nds it impossible to imagine a more beautiful place than here on the Oberdürnberg, just outside Seekirchen on Lake Wallersee, which has been her home for the last 33 years. Operated as a full-time business, the farm is defi nitely not stingy on space and offers a wealth of potential activities for “city folk” who are happy to escape their rental apartments in the city.
SWAPPING A BANK COUNTER FOR A COWSHED.
No, this isn’t some concept for a new show on Austrian TV. But it does require some explanation. There was only one reason Gertraud Unger never wanted to become a farmer. Her keenly aware child’s mind saw how hard her parents would work and how little time they had left over for the family. “When you grow up on a farm, being a farmer isn’t necessarily top of your list”, she says in retrospect. “The benefi ts are something I only became aware of later”, says Gertraud, with an undertone of contentment in her voice, sitting on a cozy chair in the house she will eventually move out of. The Oberdürnberg Hof hasn’t offi cially been handed over yet, but in two, three years, that time will come. Her son and daughter-in-law are already well integrated into the workfl ow. And four generations all do their bit to guarantee a happy life for everyone. The future is assured. Which is a good thing, especially when you realize that practically every second farmer in the area has been forced to “shut up shop”. The story of farms dying out isn’t merely some contrived dark counterbalance to those cutesy commercials featuring talking pigs and their “pet” farmer, designed to idealize the farming profession and promote a rural idyll. No, it’s something that actually happens every day, even in Salzburger Land. Though not here on the Oberdürnberg.
The way we live
“CHRISTMAS WAS NOTHING IN COMPARISON”
Gertraud grew up on a farm that was barely 5 kilometers from the Oberdürnberg and no less beautiful. Back in those days, they had even more contact with guests, not least because farming families would often move out of their own living spaces so as to be able to rent them out to holidaymakers; a practice pretty common in the Alpine world. The divide between people from the city and country could always be clearly felt: the former wore prettier clothes and had the latest technology, such as video cameras. Quite a sensation in this Flachgau village. “It always took a few years for those developments to reach us here in the country”, explains Gertraud. For their part, however, guests tended to be quite generous, often sending lavish gifts to their host families throughout the year.
In the mind of Gertraud Unger, sharing the sense of freedom and important values is an integral aspect of what farm holidays are all about. But you can only truly share those things if you are also a full-time farmer. A few cows, essentially “planted” outside to decorate the landscape, simply wouldn’t be enough. “Here with us, the barn door is open every single day”, clarifi es the constantly active farmer’s wife, highlighting the fact that you will encounter a family member in and around the barn 365 days out of the year. Guests value being able to peek behind the scenes. On the one hand, they’re excited to experience it for themselves. On the other, they want to show their children where milk comes from and everything that goes into producing it. So, does that all lead to greater awareness amongst (future) consumers? Gertraud is convinced it does. Beyond a shadow of a doubt. But for the occasional change of pace, this farm on the Oberdürnberg offers plenty of opportunities for outdoor activities or total relaxation. And should it ever rain (longer than usual), the cultural capital of western Austria lies just 11 kilometers away: Salzburg City is yet another reason why guests from Cape Town, Sydney, Oklahoma and Japan have also found their way to Schöngumprechting. “We never get to go anywhere”, Gertraud states, though without a hint of regret, merely clarifying that holidays are an alien concept for herself and her husband. “Instead, the world comes to us!”
