Ötztal Magazine prize game

1. Fine culinary spots

Fine Culinary Spots are sustainable partner businesses offering authentic Ötztal flair. Meat, fish, drinks, dairy products, fruit and vegetables are sourced locally. Which simple dish of traditional local cooking was often shared together in a cast-iron pan?

Please select:

M) Speck dumplings L) Farmer’s pizza K) Traditional homemade mush

2. Hut delights

Beautiful mountain and summit tours always include a stop for hearty mountaineering food. Countless hikes lead from Vent to scenically situated alpine pastures and mountain huts. However, only one of these summer refuge huts actually has that name:

Please select:

M) Wilhelm Busch Hütte N) Vernagthütte T) Bresbauer Hütte

3. Guest inns

At the end of the 19th century, Oetz increasingly developed into a tourist destination, but it was a place of hospitality even much earlier. A historic inn and one of Oetz’s most eye-catching buildings impresses with facade paintings dating back to around 1600.

Please select:

Ö) Gasthof zum Stern Ä) Gasthof zur Sonne Ü) Gasthof Mondschein

4. Apple paradise

More than 60,000 apple and fruit trees characterize the scenic landscape around Haiming and Sautens. Several proverbs revolving around healthy apples are not only found in Tirol. Which of these proverbs is correctly quoted?

Please select:

F) The apple doesn’t fall far from the trunk. D) An apple a day keeps the doctor away. L) Bite into the bitter apple.

5. Egg dishes

Many desserts, including delicious Ötztal “Strauben” funnel cake, require eggs as an ingredient. A dialect expression for egg is “Goggele” in German. This word reminds of an eyewear in English, which has nothing to do with eggs.

Please select:

A) Glasses B) Specs E) Goggles

6. Museum fruits

In the Local Heritage Museum garden of the Ötztal Museums, old and locally cultivated plants and crops grow. One storage vegetable – once found in every garden, but now almost forgotten – is the so-called “Tuschen” in dialect. What is it? Maybe ask a local.

Please select:

R) A snail variety L) A turnip variety E) A grasshopper variety