"A balanced life is always caught in the tension of preserving the old while welcoming the new. Those who hold onto everything risk becoming hoarders, while those who discard everything lose touch with history."
History, Present, and Future - our Hof 47 has been in the family since its inception. Research indicates that the farmstead was likely one of the earliest settlements in our small village around 800 years ago. The Ostermaier Hof (the customary house name in Bavaria) can be traced back to 1650 when it was known by the family name "Todtfeiler".
The name "Ostermaier" first appears in church records in 1620. Since then, the spelling of the name has varied, including Ostermeier, Ostermaier, or Ostermeyer. Until the 1980s, the farm was operated as a full-time enterprise, covering almost all aspects of agriculture typical for the time. Pigs were raised, chickens and ducks were kept, cows were milked, the farm's own forest provided firewood for the house and its residents, and the fields were plowed using horses until the purchase of a tractor in 1951.
In 1980, the farm was converted into a part-time operation. Agriculture continued on a smaller scale, but from this point onwards, the family was no longer solely reliant on it.
Until 2009, part of the farm served as a residence, after which it remained vacant and was used as storage space.
I asked the world, the old one, What it held as best in its vast abode. It said: The joy of the heart
