Maria Alm lies in the heart of the province of Salzburgerland, surrounded by the imposing Hochkönig, Steinernes Meer, Leoganger Steinberge, and Pinzgauer Grasberge mountains. In its centre, visitors will find what they would find in any small village: a church, a village square, an inn; the three central places for social life in the country.

One of these centres, THE village guesthouse in Maria Alm is Gasthof Eder, and has been so for 50 years.

Here people met regularly to find out news, do business, or simply to warm themselves up after church or to recoup their energies for the long way back home. Nothing much has changed in this tradition right up to the present day; Gasthaus Eder is still a meeting place for the locals after church or shopping, or as a comfortable place to talk business, or for family meals to celebrate special occasions….

With the growth of summer resorts in the 1930s, the guesthouses in Salzburgerland started to increase what they had to offer visitors. 1968, when the first ski lifts appeared in Maria Alm, marked the beginning of winter tourism here. And so, from that year, winter sportsmen and women were able to enjoy the hospitality offered by our grandparents, their famous cooking, the quaint restaurants where the fit skiers would warm their cold fingers, red ears and their wet feet after making their turns with great effort on their long wooden skis….

In the year 2011 Gasthaus Eder celebrated its 50th anniversary

Today, as was the case 50 years ago, it is hospitality, good food, and a special atmosphere that are important to us, and are the building blocks of our hotel. But it’s not only nostalgia that we are celebrating, but also the opening of the Steinernes Meer Hotel Eder with its new added sparkle!

Hotel Eder now presents itself, exciting, unique, and refreshing, expanded and renewed carefully by local firms, and still with its long tradition of Austrian hospitality, friendliness, comfort, and commitment to its social role here in the countryside.