Cheerful: Your hosts

With love and passion to one of the most unique hotels in Europe

In 1989 the Austrian Automobile, Motorcycle and Touring Club (ÖAMTC) opened a new driving technique centre in a former gravel pit next to the grounds of the Hotel Gut Brandlhof. A young man from Lower Austria called Alexander Strobl was appointed a director. Already at the first business meeting with the hotel owner Birgit Maier, sparks went flying: The two of them became a couple, got married and expanded the driving centre as well as the hotel. The two of them share many passions, for dogs, and for the mountains, golfing and road racing, and automobiles – and you can feel all these passions everywhere in the hotel.

The passion for vehicles of all kinds, and the local as well as emotional proximity of the driving centre and the hotel, characterised our business area in many ways – no wonder that the Hotel Gut Brandlhof is Austrian’s top location for events of the automotive industry.

Our philosophy & motivation

Birgit Maier and Alexander Strobl are supported by the General Manager Thomas Bauer and a team of over 130 people for creating our guests perfect events and wonderful vacations. We treat our team like we do with our guests: friendliness and warm hospitality are daily traditions at Brandlhof – not just for our guests: more than half of our employees also live at Brandlhof.

“It’s like coming home, just everything is much bigger than at home,” said one of our regular guests and is very precise with our thoughts and actions. The exposed location of the Brandlhof has always motivated us to think and act creatively. This turned the Brandlhof estate into a very special house that we are very happy to own. It is our goal to share this joy with our guests and our employees.

Our reasons are

Constantly improving the quality of the facilities and combining the Europe-wide range of leisure activities around the hotel into a harmonious symbiosis of fun, action and relaxation.

To operate profitably even in demanding and challenging times in order to be able to make future-proof investments.

Recognize the performance of each individual employee, provide them with a pleasant environment and a secure job.

To provide employees with further training and opportunities for advancement and to give them the feeling of working in a very special place.

It is important to us to employ healthy employees in good social relationships with one another through company sports and team building activities. And to create a pleasant atmosphere for employees and guests.

To operate the entire hotel complex as self-sufficiently as possible, taking into account the environment and resources. This enables us to collect, store and infeed our mountain spring water, operate the biomass heating plant and prefer to buy local products.

To position the Brandlhof as a successful hotel that is unique in its overall range and size on the market and in society. To represent it with the core business areas of business, golf, relax and action as the leading hotel in the alpine region.

The Brandlhof Chronicle

Historical development of the Hotel Gut Brandlhof from 1373 to 2024

Change for better future

We cannot yet say what the future of the Brandlhof will bring. But two things are certain: we still have plenty of space – and plenty of ideas.

Today, the Brandlhof is run by the owners Birgit Maier and Alexander Strobl together with the hotel manager Thomas Bauer.