How to reach the Häusl am Stoan
Imagine waking up one morning, looking out at the window and realizing with horror that there is nothing left around your house – everything washed away by the flood. A truly unpleasant feeling that the owners of the “Häusl am Stein” also experienced in 1882.
A long time ago, lush, beautiful meadows and several farmhouses stood here in the valley floor below Bad Lad in St. Pankraz an der Falschauer. But when in one autumn night of 1882 a great storm came down, the floods of the mountain stream swept everything away, except for the so-called “Häusl am Stein”, on the right bank of the Falschauer. By chance, this had been built on a huge boulder and was thus spared the enormous flood. However, the rock on which the cottage stands only became visible after the flood. Not even the owners of the little house knew about it.
Even today the “Häusl am Stein”, one of the most curious buildings of the holiday region Ultental-Deutschnonsberg and all of South Tyrol, stands on the rock and defies any weather. A little hidden between trees and meadows, it can be reached from St. Pankraz via a leisurely walk and can be admired. The Falschauer is still today a wild mountain stream, but a well-built one, from which no dangers go out anymore and on whose shore it is pleasant to picnic.
The “Häusl am Stein” is a very popular photo motif. It is privately owned and still inhabited today.
Opening Times:
Open all year round