The family estate Ertlhof goes way back to the time of manorial system. It might have been a a feud of Sommeregg before 1848, when villeinage has been abolished. Besides the feud there has possibly been an inn. The year of the revolution 1848 changed things and Austria became a constitutional monarchy under young emperor Franz Josef. That was the start for absolutism. An even bigger change was the abolition of villeinage. The farmers have been freed from suppression by nobility, church and the included manorial system.

The present guesthouse Ertl was approximately built in the 19th century, or even earlier and included several different construction stages.

Documents and oral tradition state, that the present estate building, where the employees live, and which holds depots, shops and agricultural storage rooms, has once been the proper and original guesthouse ‚Peterwirt‘.

In 1838 there has been the huge Marhof aside, which has been razed in 1973 due to the building of the ‚Kurhaus‘ and has been replaced through a mondern farm building in the centre of a rounded farm- and meadowland.

Picture: The ancestor of the Ertl generation Johann Ertl
with his wife Katharina nee Nikolasch

One year later the old inn ‚Peterwirt‘ got a new look. It has been torn down to the foundation walls and completely rebuilt. But the revages of time took their tribute and for example all piping had to be replaced. In 2000 the storefront has been redesigned with windows and in 2003 all rooms have been newly adapted. The family estate Ertlhof is at present in mint condition, but the changing demand asks for further changes.