Local specialties


Local specialties excel because of the fresh, local ingredients used to prepare them; fruit and vegetables, dairy products, tasty smoked ham, fresh meat and game, kitchen herbs, honey and jams.

Homemade bread is baked in wood burning ovens following recipes handed down through generations.

Wildschönau cheese come directly from the farmer, much of it made on the high pastures, where the guest can watch the process for example on the Schönanger Alm or the Käse Alm.

A fine drop

Fine liqueurs and brandies are distilled from high quality fruits and berries on many mountain farms in the region.
A very special 'drop' is the famous Wildschönau Krautinger schnapps.


Siegfried Kistl is one of the best known distillers in the area. His special liqueurs have won many awards. Taste his wares on his idyllic farm the Zwecklhof in Oberau.

Schnapps is sold
Hinteraltensberg Auffach T: +43(0)5339 8869
Hintersalcherhof, Birgit Haas Auffach T: +43(0)5339 2164
Dillentalhof, Auffach T: +43(0)664 212 4988
Steinerhof Oberau T: +43(0)5339 2117
Zwecklhof Oberau T: +43(0)664 545 6500

A selection of local schnapps can be purchased at the Farm Shop (Bauernladl) in Oberau.choice of Eine Auswahl an Schnäpsen und andere Spezialitäten sind auch im Bauernladl in Oberau erhältlich.