Sheep often populate the meadows and alpine pastures in the Tennengau. They wear white, gray, brownish or white and black woolen “coats”. Maria Kronreif from Abtenau, who is over 80 years old, spins fine wool from the warming fleece of the four-legged friends. From it Lammertal women knit hoods, socks and mittens. Maria is a […]
Anita Höll, that’s the name of the hay artist from Russbach. She is the chairwoman of the HeuART association and is responsible for many of the artistically designed hay figures that start every year at the world’s largest hay figure parade. She is a hay artist from the beginning and unites numerous associations and businesses […]
Family destination with fun golf in the Lammer Valley In Annaberg-Lungötz in the Tennengau in SalzburgerLand lies a very special excursion destination for families with children: the hay figure trail – one of the top excursion destinations in the Lammertal. A four-kilometer hiking trail in the middle of the unspoiled nature of Annaberg in the […]
Craft fever for the HayART Festival This year’s HayART Festival in Abtenau is already in the starting blocks, everyone is already looking forward to the event in the Bauernherbst in SalzburgerLand! It’s hard to believe that every year new ideas are created and such great hay figures are made! Many clubs and businesses have decided […]
The Tennengauer celebrates its traditions Last Sunday I was at the Bauernherbstfest in Bad Vigaun. In bright sunshine a real treat! There was homemade food from the farm women, regional delicacies to buy, handicrafts and lived customs – what more could you want? At the village square, the Trachtenmusikkapelle Bad Vigaun played for a morning […]
Annaberg-Lungötz: at HeuART a whole place is upside down during the preparations! HeuART 2016 goes this weekend in the already 16th round. What started in 2001 with a few hay figures, returns this year to the first venue – for the 5th time in Annaberg – Lungötz! Briefly explained: the Lammertaler HeuART festival is now […]
Recharge your batteries in the silence of the box seat I just love being up here. Through the forest on shady ground, always looking up. Up to the highest point on the Kopfberg. There, where the local patron saint of Annaberg, St. Anna, perched on a true box seat. It was carved by Ernst Adelsberger, […]
The new mountain cheese was cut at the Almkäse festival High above Annaberg, in the beautiful hiking region of Zwieselalm Dachstein-West, this year’s Tennengauer Almkäse Festival was celebrated with a GenussMarkt on the alp. The Rottenhof hut gave the hikers a warm welcome and I also stopped off at dairymaid Magdalena Kraft’s hut. The Tennengauer […]
Pleasure shopping at the Tennengau Alpine dairy When you enter the small Kaslad’n of the Pötzelsberger family in their village cheese dairy in Adnet and are warmly greeted by senior chef Melitta Pötzelsberger, you immediately notice: there is a lot of passion in it! Just like in the homemade cheeses that are ready for tasting. […]
I think I’m being kissed by a donkey… … or no, it was the other way around on Sunday at the HeuART2015! And yes, I was there again! Even though it was spontaneous, we left at short notice without breakfast and we didn’t get to see the first few hay figures during the parade, it […]
