Holidays on the historic farm

Farm holidays in Lana near Merano

The farm appears as early as the second half of the 13th century as ‘curia Burc’ or ‘curia de castro’ (castle courtyard) in directories of Weingarten Abbey. It can therefore be regarded as a supply yard for the Braunsbergs and their neighbouring castle. The Braunsbergers, followers of the Guelphs, donated it at the end of the 11th century to the Guelph house monastery of Weingarten. The brothers Berthold and Sweiker von Burch (castle) are named as administrators of the monastery in 1269-76. The later fiefdom owners were each named after the farm until around 1440.

In 1642, the farm consisted of a dwelling with a barn, a stable, a cellar and a baking oven.
From 1902, the farm was also run as a guesthouse, as they wanted to benefit from the new Ultnerstraße road. It was converted into a guesthouse with a veranda, which resulted in the building being re-orientated towards the road. After a fire in the roof truss in 1931 and subsequent reconstruction, the guesthouse continued to operate until 1940. The popular excursion destination also offered its guests ten guest rooms. (from ‘Baudenkmäler in Lana, Rundgänge zur Architektur, Kunst und Geschichte’, Martin Laimer, Simon Peter Terzer, Lana, 2016)

From 1943 to 1945, during the National Socialist occupation, the German air force was at the farm. There was a radio station, a tailor's shop and a cobbler's shop run by the German Wehrmacht. In 1945, the Allies (Americans) sealed and confiscated the cobbler's and tailor's shops.
In 1955, the then owners opened a ‘Buschenschank’ for a very short time. However, after a violent bar brawl, they withdrew from the guesthouse.

In 1985 the barn was converted into holiday flats for ‘holidays on the farm’.
In 1995 the residential building was renovated.
The outbuilding, a pavilion from 1923, cellar, oven, laundry room and pigsty are still preserved as old buildings.

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