Fascinating homeland: OÖN series as a book

A select selection of our series is now available as a book in the “OÖN Edition by Trauner”. 40 reports, finely illustrated, take you to the special features, delicacies and beauties in the country above the Enns. These six small chapter morsels provide insights into the big stories.

At Goiserer, no shoes are tight

In Bad Goisern, 32-year-old Philipp Schwarz is making sure that the shoe legend named Goiserer doesn’t leave. Custom-made production, handcraft and double seams give the historic kick its unmistakable profile. It was invented in 1875 by the Goisern cobbler and mountain guide Franz Neubacher. He designed a supple shoe that had a secure, non-slip grip with sole nails.

Quality and craftsmanship have their price, the low shoe can be worn from 2000 euros, but with mountain boots you have to pay a little more. The Goiserer may put a little pressure on the budget – it flatters the foot.

The singing stones of the Mühlviertel

If the Mühlviertel has a landmark, it is the Steinbloßhöfe, which stand like Simmental cattle on the gentle hills. They were built from granite – with bare hands. But first the stones were made to sing.

Ding, ding, ding… the hammer constantly falls on the wedges. Until bright tones are actually elicited from the granite and the “Ding, ding, ding” becomes “Sing, sing, sing”. When the stone starts to sing, you know it’s about to break. Following this melody, the people of Mühlviertel have built huge farms over the centuries from the granite that they dug out of the ground.

Nobody is like him

Rough, aloof, attractive and fascinating. Like the ambivalence that has become a mountain, the Traunstein stands at the gateway to the Salzkammergut. A mountain that holds feelings of happiness and danger at the same time.

Anyone who climbs the 1,691 meter high limestone block will never let go. From insights and perspectives, from the dominance he radiates and from the variety he offers in all his ways. The mountain also invites you to take a break in its huts: the Gmundner Hütte, lovingly managed by Gerald Auinger for many years, and the Traunsteinhaus, where innkeeper Roman Leithner has been rekindling his old love for the mountain since 2021.

Hot, hotter, the kettle hot

Anyone who comes late will be punished and will not get any sausage. Culinary-minded people know what to do on Thursday morning: they line up at the butcher’s for the kettle hot.

At the Silmbroth in Viechtwang as well as at the Schöllhuber in Kirchdorf, on this Upper Austrian “sausage holiday” people pay homage to the fresh Frankfurters, Käsekrainer, Scharfe, Weißwürste or Braunschweiger, which are simmering in the big cauldron. Fans of the Kesselwärmen can be found in all social classes – from workers to employees to bank managers. The special thing is that everyone sits at the same table and talks to each other.

The white gold from the Innviertel

As a hearty tub of bacon, it had the reputation of being a poor man’s meal. As a crisp white bacon that melts in your mouth, the specialty has long since become a delicacy.

Noted in a literary work from 1807 as the “main delicacy” of the Innviertel, salting or salting meat has been a traditional method since time immemorial to preserve meat.

Brigitte and Franz Jenichl from Altheim refine the fat back of the bacon pig into a pure white temptation. “A black bread with bacon, fresh chives and a little bit of pepper – yes, what do you think, there is almost nothing better,” says the farmer.

Black and white – just like life

Günther Waldhör doesn’t go on the Gugl, he goes on a pilgrimage. Because the new Raiffeisen Arena is a mystical place for the LASK supporter and religious teacher. “I don’t expect the answers to life’s questions from football or LASK. But a lot of things around it, this sense of community, this pilgrimage to the Holy of Holies also lives to some extent as a religion, as a belief,” he says.

The fan collects stories in folders to tell the history of LASK. “The question ‘How is LASK doing?’ moves a lot of people. This magic – whether friend or foe, opponent or supporter – is part of Upper Austria,” says the 57-year-old.

To the book

“Things we love about Upper Austria”OÖN edition by Trauner, 168 pages, 22.90 euros.
Available directly from Trauner Verlag + Buchhandel GmbH, Tel. 0732/778241, buchservice@trauner.at, in bookstores or at nachrichten.at/shop

Win: We are giving away 10 copies of “Things we love about Upper Austria” at nachrichten.at/gewinnspiele

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