This time I wanna take you to Schwarzenberg – truly one of the most beautiful villages I’ve ever seen: The traditional architecture consists of perfectly maintained, wooden houses, most of them several hundred years old! It’s located in an area called Bregenzerwald (named after Bregenz, the provincial capital) in Austria’s westernmost province of Vorarlberg. Too bad, I barely get to visit that part of Austria, as for us Viennese it’s considered quite far (even for such a small country)… Anyways, I spent some lovely days with my colleagues there as part of a company trip (which has been my third time already after Potsdam and Leogang) and we enjoyed some wonderful late summer weather!
We stayed at Gasthof Hirschen Schwarzenberg, a historic mansion with cozy interior and an awarded restaurant. I’m so in love with this country-house style and we were greeted with a delicious breakfast buffet made of local products every morning! Click here to book.
The first day was planned for sportive activities. We did quite a serious climb and took the fast way down on a zip-line overlooking the river. Very cool experience btw 😀
The second day was reserved for serious business talks, but at least we were surrounded by those splendid views on top of the Bezau cable car 😉
You could see as far as Lake Constance and neighbouring Switzerland and Germany…
Back in Schwarzenberg I captured some more impressions of the quiet and peaceful scenery that surrounded me – mellow hills that were dipped in golden light while the cows were grazing on them #countrysidelove
Goodbye Schwarzenberg, goodbye Bregenzerwald – I was truly impressed by your beauty!
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Wunderschön. Muss ja zugeben, dass Vorarlberg noch ein komplett weißer Fleck auf meiner Reisekarte ist. Das ändert sich hoffentlich ganz bald!
Liebe Grüße,
Jakob
Zumindest ist der Fleck nicht besonders groß 😉
@Julia: super schöne Fotos einer tollen Gegend!
Dankeschön 🙂
Die etwas weitere Anreise lohnt sich auf jeden Fall 😉
Diesen weissen Fleck musst du unbedingt mit Erinnerungen füllen. Unser Ländle ist nämlich klein aber fein 🙂
oooh so beautiful and rural! So far I’ve always been very happy when I managed to go to Vorarlberg. It seems to be so different from the rest of Austria 😀 I love it there! 🙂
Yeah especially the language 😛 I really enjoyed it too!
Unbelievable. I don’t know where to start with my compliments – gorgeous countryside (reminds me of ‘The Sound of Music’), love the shutters on the windows in your photos – everything is so wonderful – and photographed so well by you. Was that you on the zip line – you are so brave. Excellent post I just loved it.
Awww thanks Sue! It’s funny you mentioned “The Sound of Music” because the least Austrians have ever seen it… And the zipline looks scarier than it is 😉
Gorgeous! What a truly beautiful place you got to go on a work trip for!! And ziplining down would have been amazing!!
It’s funny because I had never heard of Lake Constance until recently, this other blogger I follow just moved to Lindau because of her husband.
Yeah I’m so glad we went there! I shall take a closer look to the lake next time 😉
haaaach ist das schön!! .<
sehr interessant – mein halber kommentar ist irgendwo im äther verschwunden ^.^ also abgesehen davon, dass ich meinte, dass der nachteil von vorarlberg der ist, dass man schneller am meer als in bregenz ist, wollte ich noch sagen, dass dieser ausflug mit dem klettersteig schon ziemlich abenteuerlich aussieht – und das konntet ihr alle? ich wüsste nicht, wie ich da raufkomme ^.^
Also ich hab das auch ein wenig unterschätzt, aber mit ein bisschen Anleitung geht das schon. Leider haben nicht alle Kollegen mitgemacht, aber diejenigen die dabei waren, haben es geschafft und du hättest das mit Sicherheit auch 🙂
Wow, that scenery is breathtaking! I would love to go ziplining through the Alps… maybe one day!
Definitely an experience not to miss 🙂
How gorgeous! It reminds me of South Tyrol, a part of Italy I know well – I’m looking forward to exploring Austria, too. I love the Alps, and those idyllic villages and landscapes… (Your photos are always great!)
Thanks so much! I visited South Tyrol many years ago and absolutely loved it… Hopefully I’ll be back one day. I can’t get enough of the beautiful landscapes either 🙂
I love the rural landscape, everything is so lush, green and beautiful! The hotel you stayed at looks so quaint and I love the library of books there. That rooms looks like a cozy place to relax after a long day of exploring 🙂
We we’re so lucky – the weather, the scenery, the hotel – everything was perfect! Thanks for visiting Eden!
Haha ertappt, es fühlt sich wirklich ziemlich weit weg an aber wenn man bedenkt wie groß andere Länder sind, ist es ja fast ein Katzensprung 😉
Wunderschöne Bilder, da muss ich bald mal hin!
Haha ich glaub hier in Österreich sind wir schnell mal abgeschreckt was Distanzen angeht 😛 Aber es lässt sich auch wunderbar von der Schweiz oder Deutschland aus erreichen 😉
Wow! What a gorgeous place and not a bad spot for a company trip!
Right? We should do such trips more often 😉
Omg, what an awesome post! Beautiful architecture and landscape photos. Need to go here!!
Thank you! It’s such a peaceful place…
I’ve always thought of Austria as a winter destination, but it really looks beautiful in the summer too.
Strangely summer tourism has caught up in Austria and is even more popular now!
What an amazing place, as always your pictures make me dream! I enjoyed the read, thank you for sharing! 🙂
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Awww thanks for reading, Lisa!
Thanks for the beautiful photos. I really love being in the countryside, way more than in the city. I’ve never been there, but I have been in the countryside around Geneva and the Alps, I guess it’s somewhat similar to the sceneries there. I hope they also eat things like fondue there 😉 lol
Yeah the scenery is just beautiful anywhere in the alps! And cheese is a big thing there too 😉
Yes, very important for us cheesemonsters 😉
omg, those houses are surreal! so beautiful! it seems like there’s a lot of posts i need to catch up hehe missed you!
Annie!! So happy to see you back here! I missed you too 😀
Nice that you visited our home area 🙂 We enjoy living here in the countryside very much and feel blessed for all it has to offer. You should definitely visit more areas here since every corner has something different to offer. The place where you stayed is very typicial and worth visiting, maybe next year we´ll try the zip line ourselves 😀
I can absolutely imagine that living in the countryside has a lot of benefits 🙂 I hope to return to Vorarlberg very soon!