Bregenzerwald Cheese Route
The Käsestraße Bregenzerwald ( spelling : KäseStrasse Bregenzerwald ) is an association of Bregenzerwald farmers , innkeepers , craftsmen and trading companies . All members and partners of the Käsestraße contribute to maintaining the Bregenzerwald agriculture and its local products.
history
Cheese has always been a basic product in the Bregenzerwald:
“ Vorarlbergerisch : Eassand Käs and nüd das door bread! ( Standard German : eat cheese and not the expensive bread) "
So if milk and milk products , i.e. above all the so-called mountain cheese made from raw milk on the alpine pastures and in the village dairies , had been a staple food for the forest population for centuries, cheese soon became an important export, alongside products from embroidery and the wood industry probably one of the most important until recently.
In the 19th century , the trade monopoly for the lucrative and vital cheese business was in the hands of the notorious cheese counts , who knew how to use their monopoly position efficiently. Gallus Moosbrugger from Schnepfau is famous, for example , who transported and sold the cheese in all parts of the Danube monarchy and on mule tracks as far as Milan . Franz Michael Felder described the oppressive dependency of the mostly poor smallholders in his novels and also fought it practically with his own cooperative.
The farmers, herdsmen and inns in the Bregenzerwald region joined forces in May 1998 with an ulterior motive for tourism. The Käsestraße shows those interested the way in which the milk is processed into cheese and how this went in Vorarlberg in the past. The Käsestrasse itself, however, had its origins as an association for mutual help against the monopoly of the cheese counts. All members of the Käsestraße and their partners have committed to preserving the landscape and local products.
"This is not, as the name might suggest, an excursion route through a folk-style dairy culture, but a future-oriented association of practically all farmers, dairies and communities, in which many craft businesses and inns and even cable car companies are involved."
Show dairies and cheese schools , the Käsehaus in Andelsbuch , the Bregenzerwald cheese cellar in Lingenau , whey products marketed via online shops or the dairy in Hittisau , which insists on independence, are further institutions of the Bregenzerwald dairy industry.
course
The Bregenzerwald cheese road begins in Bregenz and runs along the L 200 Bregenzerwald road through all villages and the connected Alps. The milk obtained, separated into cow, goat and sheep milk (mainly raw cow milk), is brought down to the street by means of a transport cable car or handcart or car, where a milk tanker picks up the milk. This is brought to a cheese dairy near Hittisau , where cheese production begins.
With its cheese varieties, the area was also included in the Bregenzerwald Alpine Cheese and Mountain Cheese region in the Genussregion Österreich project in 2005 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The long history of cheese ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Bregenzerwald alpine cheese and mountain cheese , accessed on February 18, 2013.