sustainable
Family tradition
We are Elfi, Otmar, and Philip. We are passionate about our village and our small business.
Although it doesn't look it, the house's foundations are approximately 200 years old. Of course, it didn't begin as an inn, but as a farm and carpentry workshop. The Hubertus Chapel – also known locally as the Hauserer Chapel – still stands almost unchanged as the farm chapel.
Since spring 2020, we have been carefully dusting off and bringing to light what our ancestors had gradually expanded and partially concealed. This includes, for example, massive stone walls and old wooden components, our 70-year-old larch staircases, and also many pieces of furniture that Grandpa made.
Having traveled the world as a sinologist and rediscovered his homeland there, Philip, in the third generation, is now lending a hand and continuing what began 60 years ago.
Hauserer Chapel
Memorizing with feeling
After Alois Kofler's wife was saved from her serious illness in 1856, our ancestor decided to build a chapel. Two simple wooden benches, a crucifix, a stone mensa and a few painted decorative elements initially adorned the Hauer chapel and not much changed over the generations. In the 1960s, it was given to the Mallnitz hunters as the Hubert Chapel and renovated by them. A carved altar dedicated to St Hubertus was part of the redesign, which was complemented by stained glass windows with hunting scenes and large-scale Swiss stone pine panelling in the early 2000s. In 2024, we - the descendants of Alois Kofler - decided to renovate the chapel extensively and, above all, carefully, bringing it closer to its simple original state. In hundreds of hours of work, Elfi, Otmar and Philp restored the original altar mensa and remnants of the paintwork and rebuilt the windows to their original state. Today, the chapel is once again the family's house and court chapel, which is also open for private celebrations on a small scale on request, and is called the ‘Hauserer Chapel’ in keeping with our common name.
