Sustainable
familys
tradition
The "team" of appartementsKOFLER that is Elfi, Otmar and Philip.
We are passionate about our village and our small family business.
Even if it does not look like it, the house in its foundations is around 200 years old. Of course, it didn't start out as an accommodation business, but as a farm and carpentry shop. The so called "Hausererkapelle", a small place of worship in front of our house is not only a reminder of the former ensemble of farm buildings, but also that now and then our soul needs a break from the busy lifes we all live - a break we nowadays would like to provide our guests at our house.
What our ancestors have built up in small steps over years and sometimes even plastered over, we have been trying to bring back to the light of day and rejuvenate over the last couple of years. Massive stone walls and old wooden elements, our 70-year-old larch stairs and also some pieces of furniture that Grandpa made among them.
Venturing out into the wide world as a sinologist, only to rediscover his home, Philip is now also lending a hand and continuing what began 60 years ago with some small guest rooms next to the barn.
Hauserer
chapel
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.
