Farm shop: for body and mind

In Tyrol one knows how to enjoy oneself. Cheese specialities, honey, bacon, high quality gin, preserved foods, and herb extracts are only a few of the typical specialities of the Wildschonau. These products are for sale at the farm shop in Oberau.

The farmers’market in the Wildschonau

The market in the Wildschonau takes place once a month in Oberau near the Tyrolianhof place.
Farmers’ products from the Wildschonau are presented here, hand made art products, traditional folk music, and regional delicacies.

The “Hintersalcher –herb garden

People who are interested in herbs should certainly pay a visit to the herb garden of Birgit Haas. This garden is to be found at the Hintersalcherhof and is to be reached on foot as well as by car. From way back herb plants are grown in the Wildschonau. Formerly mostly for their healing effect, one often used to speak of “the pharmacy at the front door”. Nowadays herbs are used for odour sachets, and in cosmetically products. Who wants to pay a visit should first make a phone call (05339)2164.

Schonangeralm

At the end of the Wildschonau lies the “Schonanger” a hilly territory with a lot of pasture land. Next to pasture land it is also a splendid walking area with well indicated walking paths.
Here the “Schonangeralm” has been established, where milk is directly processed into cheese.
The whole process of cheese making under management of cheese master Friedl Schipfinger is to be followed close at hand. The cheese farm is open from June until the end of September admittance fee 3.00 Euros. per person.

The “Krautinger” of the Wildschonau – monopoly of the empire

Some people are very fond of it, others don’t like it at all and pull their noses up, but everybody agrees: the “Krautinger” from the Wildschonau is a unique speciality and not only because it is produced in the Unterlander Hochtal. It is all because of empress Maria Theresia (1717-1780) that the Wildschonauer got a monopoly. She granted 51 farmers the right for (by lack of fruit) to distil gin from turnips. Next to it being a speciality, it is also a medicine, for people who have stomach complaints and the Krautinger who drinks it is by 90 per cent released from the complaints.