Centuries hard service: reading and enjoyment in Pinzgau!

Centuries hard service: reading and enjoyment in Pinzgau!

On June 30, 2025, a special event took place in the Tauriska chamber of Land in Neukirchen at the Großvenediger, which focused on the servant. This event was part of a cooperation between Slow Food Pinzgau and the Bramberg fruit press. meinzirk.at reports that…

The life of servants has been a central component of rural life in Salzburg for many centuries. These often neglected people, including servants, maids and single children, lived under difficult conditions. Mag. Dr. Michael Span from the Salzburg open -air museum gave exciting insights into the hard and often lawless existence of this group. After all, around 300,000 servants worked in Austria in the 1930s, as the servant in the Wikipedia article describes. Sn.at explains this ...

cultural exchange and culinary diversity

The readings that took place as part of this event were not only informative, but also entertaining. Mag. Robert Kleindienst, who also moderated the reading, read from his new work "The Song of it", which addresses his father's life story. In addition, Charly Rabanser and Simon Embacher musically contributed to the atmosphere. A symbolic apple tree was also shown, presented by Christian Vötter and Toni Lassacher to Wolfgang Schäffner from Slow Food Pinzgau.

A special highlight was the culinary offers that gave the guests a real festival for the palate. Pinzgau beef bacon, apple pod, goat cheese and creative snack plates were cooked, which are based on freshly processed local fruits thanks to the collaboration with the Bramberg fruit press. This fruit press has been processing old fruit varieties for 20 years.

a look into the past

The readings and discussions not only addressed the realities of the servants, but also the social and economic conditions under which they lived. The writers Franz Innerhofer and Georg Eberl describe in their works how challenging life was for single children, and address the psychological stress. In his book "I was an unmarried child", Eberl is particularly concerned with the privation that many had to experience in the country.

In times when many young people and young adults worked for little money on farms, the consideration was often limited to food and lodging. Such hardships were often taken for granted by the farmers at the time, and the spiritual leadership preached against premature sexual intercourse, which caused servants to focus again and again.

Overall, an important step in the memory and appreciation of the servants and their living environment was taken in Neukirchen, and the cooperation between Slow Food Pinzgau and the Bramberg fruit press shows that sustainable and fair diet is more than ever looking back on the dialect of our history and receives new swing. Slow-food.at complements this information…