Cheese dairy Haus Walserstolz

The Sonntag-Boden adventure dairy is the largest dairy in the Großes Walsertal biosphere reserve. The Walserstolz, a traditional mountain cheese made exclusively from hay milk, is the flagship of the natural alpine dairy. To get to know the region's agriculture and products up close, visit Haus Walserstolz in Sonntag.

Haus Walserstolz is the perfect program for anyone who wants to learn more about the region and an educational excursion destination for families. At Haus Walserstolz you can experience the most famous agricultural product of the Bregenzerwald in all its facets. In the show dairy you can follow the production of a real Walserstolz cheese. An exhibition room on the Großes Walsertal Biosphere Reserve gives you an understanding of the only landscape area that is the prerequisite for the production of high-quality dairy products.

Biosphere Park Großes Walsertal

No fewer than 50 Alps are spread across the Große Walsertal in the heart of Vorarlberg. The highest of these is at 1,700 meters above sea level. The cows spend the summer on these alps and eat their fill of the best herbs and grasses. You can taste this in every single product from the region, which is made from silage-free, untreated raw milk.

Where it says Walserstolz on the label, all the pride of the region is inside: 39 mountain farms from Sonntag and Fontanella deliver around 1.5 million liters of milk to the "HausWalserstolz" dairy building every year, where a good 140 tons of the regional mountain cheese speciality "Walserstolz" are produced. Maturation takes place in the cellars of Emmi Austria in Nüziders. Around 20 tons of Walserstolz are then returned to the dairy to be marketed directly. In addition to its own store, Haus Walserstolz also has its own tasting room for 90 people.

Bregenzerwald Cheese Route