Living Moments - N°2 Edition 2014

long hallway. The heavy floorboards creak with every step. The kitchen would enrich every farm- house museum. They cook in the dark Rauchkuchl kitchen over the open fire as they used to do centuries ago. The cold smoke and the soot marks over the fire- place give the room a somewhat archaic ambi- ence. Guests sleep in the five bedchambers with massive wooden bedsteads and country furni- ture. Bedside tables with playful carvings, white ruffled curtains and porcelain table lamps. Show- ers and toilets are only to be found on the hall- way. Holidays on the farmwith a breath of a romantic German Heimatfilm. Those who spend their holi- days in the Schwaigerlehen attach importance to atmosphere and authenticity. The simple country life enthrals not only families and traditionalists. Despite the minimalist comfort, many celebrities lodge with Resi Bacher – from industrialist’s fami- lies to the chief physician, to the former German National Soccer Player. And so it happened that the Bacher family cleared a meadow behind the house, right beside the new hen coop and conver- ted it into a heliport.“The chickens got pretty up- set when the first helicopter landed”, the peasant woman relates with singing laughter and her typical passion. Here, they cook and eat as in olden days. Roast venison and herbal trout made from the Schmalz pan. Cheese and bacon from 40 Edition 2 · 2014