Pfandler Alm

The Pfandleralm is at 1350m and is a pearl in this area. Here you can stay, not many rooms, but very nice owners and great food. This is where Andreas Hofer was captured.

The Pfandleralm is located at 1350 meters above sea level on Prantacher Berg above St. Martin in Passeier. After the collapse of the Tyrolean uprising in 1809, the Commander-in-Chief Andreas Hofer, together with his wife Anna, his only son Johann and his adjutant Kajethan Sweth, fled to a hut on the Pfandleralm. At Hofer's capture, a bounty of 1,500 guilders was suspended. The Gruebhofbauer Franz Raffl betrayed the hiding place to the French authorities. At dawn on January 28, 1810, a 600-strong contingent of French soldiers on the Pfandleralm and could arrest Hofer. In November 1919 the wooden hut burnt down completely. In 1947, it was rebuilt and the marble plaque recalls the historic events.

After a crisp descent from the direction of St. Martin's here is the first reward, or even earlier in the Pfandler Hof.