stories of life
Court chronicle of the
Schoberguts in Radstadt
From generation to generation: this also applies to the Mayrhöfe, which lie half an hour from Radstadt in the valley on the right bank of the Taurach and which the local people refer to as "Kaspardörfl". Originally the whole estate was owned by one owner, later it was split into four farms. The Kaspar farmer on the Obermayrhof also led the clever and prudent regiment over the Mittermayrhof, the Hödhof, the Niedermayrhof, the Schobergut and the Diktenanwesen. The family name Mayrhofer refers to the many hundred years of history of his family. Our home farm, today's Schobergut, has a very eventful history.
How the farm got its name
Anno 1604
The name "Schoberlehen" probably goes back to an Ulrich Schober, the progenitor of several generations that died out on the estate in the early 1800s. He was followed by:
- 1689 - Peter Schober
- 1714 - Thomas Schober
- 1746 - Paul Schober
- 1785 - Paul Schober
In 1804 the widow of Paul Schober married a Simon Scharfetter.
Renewed sale of the farm
Anno 1851
Sale to Rupert Mayrhofer and his wife Katharina (née Steger) of the Kasparbauerngut. Subsequent handover to the brother Matthias, married to Veronika (née Stiglitz) from the Zillertal. Veronika could not get used to farm life, so the Schobergut was sold to Josef and Maria Passrucker.
Association with the Kasparbauerngut
Anno 1868
In this year Matthias Mayrhofer and his wife Elise (née Kirchgasser) bought back the Schobergut. It was reunited with the entire Kasparbauerngut. The Schoberhaus was partly used as a discharge house and the Tenne was mostly used for the storage of fresh grain.
Caspian village 1940
ca. 1943: Matthias & Barbara with children Lisi, Greti, Barbara & Hias
Schoberhütte 1968
Handover to Johann Mayrhofer and wife Rosina
Anno 1894
Johann Mayrhofer and his wife Rosina (née Lackner) took over the farm. The children are descended from this marriage
Maria, Johann, Rosina and Josef. From his second marriage with Anna (née Huber) he had twelve more children:
- Simon
- Matthias
- Anna
- Alois
- Michael
- Franz
- Kaspar
- George
- Elizabeth
- Sebastian
- Josefa
- Josef
Extension of the farm
Anno 1968
Large parts of the dictation property were bought in addition.
Caspian village 1968
Handover to the son Matthias Mayrhofer
Anno 1971
Matthias and Christine Mayrhofer (née Schneider) took over the farm this year. Their three children Matthias (1969), Herbert (1971) and Christiane (1975) were born of this marriage.
Handover to Herbert and Martha
Anno 2009
Herbert and Martha (née Hofer) took over the farm. Xaver (2010), Helene (2012) and Anna (2015) were born of this marriage.
The Mayrhofer farming family has lived through five hundred years of Salzburg's princely history, and the great world events have also thrown their last ebbing waves into the Taurach valley. Many thousands of hikers have passed the farms on the Tauern Road, looked up at them and gone on their way again. Times have changed and people have changed. But the old spirit has remained on the Mayr farms.
Farm holidays 1970
Schobergut 1975
Mayrhofer family 2018
